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staple

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staple \sta"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. stapled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. stapling .] To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton. To fasten together with a staple[9] or staples; as, to staple a check to a letter.

Usage examples of staple.

Billboards lined the walls, stapled and tacked with colloquia notices, assistantship postings, apartments to share.

Hawkeye dissected the bronchus up to where- the trachea divides and applied a stapling device which saves sewing it by hand.

Lindeth called at Staples to leave compliment cards, she told him, with a provocative look under her lashes, that his cousin, learning that although she was an accomplished horsewoman in the saddle she had never found anyone capable of teaching her how to handle the reins in form, had begged to be allowed to offer his services.

He relates how he had been asked to retire from the Mayoralty of the Staple beyond the seas, and to give up the charters and other muniments which the several towns had obtained at considerable cost.

Staples, for Courtenay told Jack that the party had not broken up till past midnight, and that when it came to playing Jackstraws the Nonesuch had them all beat to flinders, even Miss Trent, who had such deft fingers.

Piles of books, periodicals, offprints, Xeroxed sheets of stapled or loose paper, folded or rolled graphs and charts and tables and spreadsheets.

I was lucky it missed the tendons, but it still took the medic nine staples to close the wound, plus orthostat glue to seal the cut bone.

The staple material, porphyritic trap, shows scatters of quartz and huge veins, mostly trending north-south: large trenches made, according to the guides, by the ancients, and small cairns or stone piles, modern work, were also pointed out to us.

Jardine made no attempt to disguise the truth that opium was the staple of his trade, or that his precautionary measures were designed to temporarily allay the fears of the Chinese officials.

About six months later, Helena Landless is to join Neville, who is watched at intervals by Jasper, who, again, is watched by Grewgious as the precentor lurks about Staple Inn.

She had never used a stapler before, so she sometimes stapled her fingers by mistake, which hurt quite a bit.

Some little rubber practical-joke-type flies, the blue-bellied kind that live on filth, are stapled in a raisinesque dispersal over the red Concavity.

She peered over the drape to see the face of the woman whose body she had just stapled shut.

Shaz picked up another pile of stapled photocopies and passed them round.

The bridge systems whooped alert status into their ears and momentary shock stapled every man to his place.