Short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display.
1It comes after another shopper said they found a thumb tack in strawberries bought from a Goolwa supermarket on Monday.
2Fasten this material down to the table slightly with pins or thumb tacks.
3Oliver walked over to the steps and pulled out the thumb tacks that held the snakeskin.
4A couple of thumb tacks should be used to fasten the paper and design in place.
5On the back of the door a relatively new calendar was posted with two thumb tacks.
6Paint the heads of four thumb tacks black and use them in fastening the plaque to the board.
7This he fastened to the door jam by pressing in the thumb tacks that were sewed in the hem.
8And three customers of a Golden Grove store said they found needles and thumb tacks in their groceries over recent days.
9He shows me a rectangle of foam-core with a straw, a broken pen, and a few thumb tacks stuck to it.
10Various devices are used to keep the film straight, and push pins or thumb tacks are supplied with almost all of them.
11The scrim should be pinned to the black-board with thumb tacks, and the stitches made large enough for all to see without difficulty.
12Metal needles were found in a punnet of strawberries, as well as an avocado, and thumb tacks in a loaf of rye bread.
13But the worst of all was the day teacher sent me to the office for thumb tacks to fasten up our drawings around the room.
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