In short, over a month before the war actually started, one man pinned under a wrecked railroad train just inside the Polish border knew every detail of Hitler's entire war plan.
He came upon one man who was pinned under the shattered end of one car.
Myra pinned a flower in my coat and forgave me, and we walked off together with the perambulator.
I shall put that round the brim," and I pinned it round.
This writing was pinned to the church door," he said, handing it to the parson.
He hated his master with a bitter, rancorous hatred, but still he stayed on, for he foresaw the day when he might be revenged on him upon whom he now fawned, saw it dimly still, but opening wide possibilities.
The result of this dreadful quarrel was a foregone issue.
He had him pinned fast now--all he had to do was to watch his victim's struggles.
Well, it appears that one day my minister's little wife left one of those tell-tale instruments pinned to the paper, close to my looking-glass.
Then he points out to him what women would make suitable mistresses for him, who make a man noted, and have the effect of some rare and beautiful flower pinned into his buttonhole.
One of the judges walked over to a bulletin board and pinned up a piece of paper.
Ernest and Jack led their own dogs into the ring, with numbers pinned to their coat-sleeves.
So they wrapped another towel over my eyes and pinned it with a cursed export safety-pin that pierced clean through my scalp.
Pinned to one corner was a card, "For my little Cynthia.
His valise was all packed ready for his start on the morrow, but there was no line pinned to the frame of the mirror telling Peter Junior where to find him, as was Richard's way in the past.
About her neck she put a bertha, kerchiefwise, and pinned it with a brooch of curiously wrought gold.
The Wrights' piston was typical of the time, with the rings pinned in the grooves to prevent turning and the piston pin locked in the piston with a setscrew.
The Smithsonian drawings show the use at each end of adapters between the rod and end castings, the adapters being first screwed into the castings and pinned and then brazed to the inside of the tube.
At one time the tube ends were screwed into the bronze castings and pinned, and at another the ends were pinned and soldered.
The drivers of these wore wedding favours pinned to their coats, while their whips were decorated with white satin ribbons.
This proved to be even less inviting than the sitting-room: hardly any of the furniture was perfect; a dirty piece of stuff was pinned across the window; dust lay heavy on toilet glass and mantel.
The next moment she had pinned on her hat, caught up her gloves, and scurried into the street.
But I must get back," she said, as she pinned on her hat.
She detached herself suavely, and Mrs. Merrick was presently joined by a dull country neighbour whopinned her in a corner with tiresome church talk.
Something sang like an arrow through the air: I felt a blow and then a sharp pang, and there I was pinned by the shoulder to the mast.
I heard a great roar, and something struck me down, and I found myself pinned to the ground, in darkness, with my mouth full of dust, and an immense beam on my chest.
He fought, I am told, just like Crillon; rushed in on that rascal and fairly beat down his guard, and had him pinned to the ground before he knew that they had crossed swords!
His coat was stained with blood and gashed in several places; driven into his chest by a downward blow, the bayonet of a short German service Mauser pinned him to the floor like a specimen on a naturalist's card.
Then, grasping the rifle in both hands, he had stood over his victim and pinned the body to the floor.
She knew that nobody pinned to the ground and helpless could have withstood that cold for more than a very little while.
I don't know whether it smashed my ankle, or whether I twisted it wriggling clear--the thing pinned me down.
To young Bristoll, who was no unwilling wage-earner, but a hero-worshiper in all the intensity of strong youth, it had been as if an emperor had pinned on his breast the insignia of personal regard.
The twentieth century Mrs. Brewster wears a highnecked black silk waist with a chatelaine watch pinned over her left breast and a spot of Gordon's codfish (no bones) over her right.
No, he was pinned to the place there, left alone With his immense hate and, the solitary Subject to satisfy that hate, his wife.
I pinned him to earth with my weight And persistence of hate: And he lay, would not moan, would not curse, As his lot might be worse.
One needs but little tackle to travel in; So, just one stout cloak shall I indue: And for a staff, what beats the javelin With which his boars my father pinned you?
The same rose was pinned on her coat, when later in the morning they went to a Christmas service at St. Boniface, the little stone church in the village, a mile away.
Betty and Phil obediently went into the studio to renew their acquaintance of two years before, begun at Eugenia's wedding, and wandered around the room looking at the various specimen's of Joyce's handicraft pinned about on the walls.
But Oliver had remembered, and when the purple box was brought up to her, and Jenny pinned the violets on her dress, a blush mantled her thin cheeks, and she looked for a moment almost as young and lovely as her daughters.
If I can only get out of doors I shall feel better," she insisted; and when she had hurriedly pinned on her hat and tied her tulle ruff at her throat, she caught up her gloves and ran quickly down the stairs and out into the street.
She saw her kneeling on the old frayed red and blue drugget, her skirt pinned up at the back of her waist, while she bathed her daughter's scratched and aching feet in the oblong tin foot-tub.
She had got up a photographic exhibition, and collected quite a nice little show of snapshots, neatly mounted on brown paper, and pinned round the play-room.
Maggie had seized on this occasion for having the mumps, and acting upon the advice of her sympathizing mistress, had pinned a hot flannel around her face and gone to bed.
She saw Ann Lizy's patchwork, all four squares nicely pinned together, lying beside the meadowsweet bushes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
