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Pinning in sentence

15 examples of Pinning in a sentence

The perverse at heart will seek out the ambiguities, trying to create discord by pinning down meanings of their own.
Your eyes open, and there's a demon sitting on your chest, pinning you down.
Department store clerk Betsy Drake is in love with the idea of babies and marriage, pinning her hopes on women's magazines until she spies super-bait in the form of sleek bachelor Cary Grant.
From O's "Resevoir Dogs"-like killing suit to Tok's pinning an opponent's hand to a bar with an icepick to O and Chin's "Bonnie-and-Clyde"-like moment in a field, the movie is an homage to cinephiles everywhere.
A lot of this stuff is absolutely ridiculous, Stanley seems to have supernatural powers when pinning people to trees with pickaxes and making a human shishkebab.
May claims that Brexit will enable Britain to strike better trade deals with non-EU countries, and she is pinning her hopes on a quick deal with Trump’s America.
The ruling elite, whose public face at present is the attractive, mild-mannered, Oxford-educated prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, is pinning all the troubles on one man, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, exiled abroad and a fugitive from Thai justice.
Considering the state of Europe and the world – and the hopes many outsiders are pinning on German leadership – these issues seem rather marginal.
The EU is pinning its hopes on one mechanism to reduce Greek debt: loans from the European Financial Stability Facility that would allow Greece to buy its own debt at a discount in the secondary market.
Instead, they are valiantly pinning their hopes on the old decolonization/nationalist strategy, nowadays even resorting to such Stalinist tools as staged show trials.
People seem to be pinning their electoral hopes on political Islam, which has emerged as the main alternative to secular autocracy over the last decade.
In Dante’s telling, the adulteress Francesca da Rimini spends the rest of eternity incessantly pinning the blame for her actions on everyone and everything but herself.
The javelin inflicted a wound upon the animal's shoulder, and narrowly missed pinning him to the earth; and Fangs fled howling from the presence of the enraged thane.
CHAPTER XXVIIANNA WAS UPSTAIRS standing in front of a mirror pinning, with Annushka's help, a last bow to her dress, when she heard the wheels of a carriage grating on the gravel at the entrance.
The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror.