Closers of a kind

Usage examples of zippers.

I don't think anyone noticed at the time, but nearly all of us tore those lady-fashion zippers open without using the little pull tab thingy.

The supply officer claimed these were newer, better zippers than the one on the prototype".

Just the sort of job for up-time-style sleeping bags, if only the bloody zippers had worked.

Problem was our no-good, stinking sleeping bags were too small even for one man, and the bedeviled zippers didn't work so we couldn't put two bags together to make a large one.

Faith, I should be sewin' more zippers into me garments, for I have many erogenous zones that require speedy access.

Their gap-toothed zippers, split like the vertebrae of a temple sacrifice, made a tiny clink when they hit the tiles of the tub-room floor.

As he recrossed the living room to where the man sat shivering on the couch, Jonesy realized he hadn't asked the most elementary question of all, the one even six-year-olds who couldn't get their own zippers down asked.

The zippers on his jacket, the one Beaver's older brother wore during his four or five years of Fonzie-worship, jingle faster.

He wishes he had his rifle, the one Pete's Dad loaned him, but that rifle is gone, left behind, buried in the years along with Jonesy's phone with the Star Wars sticker on it (how they had all envied that phone), and Beaver's jacket of many zippers, and Pete's sweater with the NASA logo on the breast.

Baggy when you first put them on, they had zippers up the sides and on all four limbs which snugged them up properly.

In the summer, you wore a set of thin linen long johns that had zippers all over the place.

These zippers matched up with zippers on the inside of the armored coveralls.

I suppose my grandfather might have had the same trouble with zippers if he had not been led into them gradually.

No zippers or buttons because the clothes were imagined to be put on in some sort of way, by forcefield, or whatever the hell you wanted it to be.

Yeah, they’ve got zippers and so on and so forth, but that does all blend eventually and you’re really just looking at the surface.