Example sentences for: pinned

How can you use “pinned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That may reflect poorly on the membership, but it can't be pinned on the officers.

  • Perhaps that would embarrass him into retiring, having plumbed depths of behavior unworthy of a scout guide, let alone the defense minister of a country on whose role in recovering usurped Arab rights so much hope was pinned."

  • Nobody--not William Safire, not the Oxford English Dictionary --has concretely pinned down the origin of the word nerd . One theory traces it to a throwaway passage in Dr. Seuss' lesser-known 1950 children's book If I Ran the Zoo . Another considers it a variation of the 1940s put-down nerts to you , as in "nuts to you."

  • The assault--an orgy in which fixtures are smashed, workers pummeled, and a Hispanic cashier pinned to a conveyer belt and doused with milk ("She looks white!"

  • But the location of Bin Ladin's quarters could not be pinned down so precisely.


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