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How to use the word Pinned in a Sentence?

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This drop can be pinned on weakening global demand for Chinese goods, as well as some disruption to logistics networks and goods supply due to labor shortages amid the reopening wave of infections.

Capital Economics

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What they'll find is they know them already. They are your sons. They are your husbands, fathers and brothers. They are your neighbors. They walked these city streets beside you. They shared the same dreams and have the same worries you have. That's why they took the oath and pinned on a New York City police officer's shield — not because they were different, but because they could see themselves in you.

Patrick Lynch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Myself and other teammates were all shot up. I was hit eight times between the body and body armor. I took a round directly to the face and was pinned down, we called rounds directly on our position and miraculously survived. And fast forward about 96 hours from that moment. I found myself in a hospital bed in Bethesda.

Jason Redman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any attempt to overturn or distort the conclusions of the joint study report is political manipulation and disrespect for global scientists and science, the label of' refusing origin tracing' can never be pinned on China. Instead, it is very appropriate for the United States itself.

Ma Zhaoxu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This was the first time I was going, they curated the entry hall to resemble an athletic locker room. They line the entire entry hall with bright red lockers and all the doors were hanging open with a different page from the calendar pinned to the inside of the locker.

Christie Brinkley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was touching to see that nurses covered from head to toe in protective gear pinned photos of themselves on their chests so that patients could see their faces.

Klaus Schnenberger

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I assessed the situation very quickly, looked around and took the only action possible that I felt I could take, i accelerated my truck as quickly as possible and struck the active shooter and pinned him underneath my truck.

Master Sgt. David Royer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Looking forward, the coronavirus provides a substantial risk for the expected global recovery, as hopes were pinned on an improvement of the Chinese economy.

Deutsche Bank

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It came down on top of me and pinned me to the floor, I couldnt move.

Stuart Clegg

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I learned what it felt like to be pinned down and slapped repeatedly, punched so hard the wind would go out of me, dragged by my hair across pavement, head-butted, pinched until my skin broke, shoved into a wall so hard the drywall broke, choked.

Melissa Benoist

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

He had a knife, it was covered in blood. He kept saying something in Arabic, he was clearly under the influence of something, my brother Luke managed to keep him pinned down until the police arrived. My brother put a crate and a chair to keep him pinned down. He didnt show any remorse at all.

Paul OShaughnessy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When the bear let go, the teen fell over and attempted to crawl between two trees and protect his head and vitals. The bear then pinned him face-down on the ground.

Montana Department of Fish

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nothing has happened in the last 24 hours to dissuade us from the view that we are headed in the direction of an Article 50 delay, a softer Brexit or no Brexit, but it remains too soon to be buying sterling with your ears pinned back.

Ray Attrill

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was definitely people pinned. And there was a bit of blood on the floor.

Bilal Gill

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Kyle Plush parents do it how Kyle Plush parents did it in the old days, write it down on an index card and the card is handed to someone somehow sending the person dispatching on that channel, he said. Plush suffocated after he became trapped under the third-row seat that flipped and pinned him while he was trying to reach his tennis equipment. The teenager told 911 operators where he was located, but authorities were not able to find him. A deputy sent to the scene soon after called in to report that he could n’t find anyone trapped in a van, and questioned if the call had been a prank. 911 DISPATCHER WHO ANSWERED CALL FROM BOY CRUSHED BY MINIVAN SEAT COMPLAINED ABOUT JOB DAYS BEFORE INCIDENT Police said Amber Smith, the 911 operator who answered Plush’s second call, failed to relay information to the additional officers who were at the scene. During the call, Plush explained to Smith the call was not a joke. I am trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of the Seven Hills... Send officers immediately, Plush pleaded. I ’m almost dead.

Kyle Plush

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages. What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.

Émile Durkheim

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I'm lookin' at a tin star with a, drunk pinned on it.

John Wayne

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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