Example sentences for: pinning

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

  • Nike is pinning its comeback on its one incontrovertible success: Michael Jordan's endorsement.

  • Instead the talk is increasingly of a resurgent, nationalist Russia, pinning its hopes of salvation on a strong leader.

  • Charles Krauthammer makes this case in the post-election issue of the Weekly Standard . ("No Excuses, No Alibis," declares the editors' self-congratulatory headline, as if pinning the entire blame on one scapegoat deserves a medal for intellectual valor.)

  • For clothes, they wove the cloth in person-sized widths and lengths--no cutting off the bolt--and garments were created by draping, pinning, or wrapping them onto the body.

  • Oh, and regarding your last letter's comment about Gore pinning Bradley to the floor and lying on top of him, its a good idea, but somehow I don't think it'd work, because that's obviously what Tipper's been doing to Al herself since their first teen-age (but presumably non-rock 'n' roll concert) date.


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