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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
thumbtack .
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Examples
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Sketches were thumbtacked to the walls; partially finished paintings stood on half a dozen easels.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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Posters of Bruce Lee, Barb Wire, John Elway, the Watchmen, and Carmelo Anthony were thumbtacked to the shabby plaster wall.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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Above them, to my left, hung four pages that had been clipped out of newspapers and thumbtacked to the wall.
The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010
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Dad kept the recipe thumbtacked inside the cabinet where the Calumet baking powder and the Morton salt were kept.
Grandpa's special pancakes | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Migration maps were thumbtacked to her apartment walls; encyclopedic census reports barricaded her bed.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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Katy awoke to orchids and plumeria, a handmade lei, and a thumbtacked Hawaiian panorama.
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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Photocopies of this portrait are plastered on every bus shelter and lamppost and thumbtacked on every post office and public school bulletin board.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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In one corner of my cubicle, I've thumbtacked a battered old AOL floppy disk.
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Migration maps were thumbtacked to her apartment walls; encyclopedic census reports barricaded her bed.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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Migration maps were thumbtacked to her apartment walls; encyclopedic census reports barricaded her bed.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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