Once, in an unguarded moment, he passed so near her that the gentle south wind caught up the cherry ribbon that Miss Buttonhook wore at her throat, and slapped Mr. Bevans across the cheek with it before he knew what ailed him.
It was the varioloid, and didn't hurt him only when Miss Buttonhook was present, or in sight.
She had regained her composure and was taking occasional furtive peeps at Mrs. Frank, now seated at the foot of the bed, busy with a buttonhook and the adjustment of a pair of very dainty boots of white kid, whose buttons gleamed like pearls.
When they told her sharply that the scissors were very delicate and she was instantly to take them out of her hair, she tugged them out in a silence that was itself impertinent, and pinned up her pigtails with their buttonhook instead.
She ought to have noticed that the scissors and buttonhook were not hers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buttonhook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
