12 example sentences using buttonhole.
Buttonhole used in a sentence
Buttonhole in a sentence as a noun
$125 if I want contrast stitching on the top buttonhole and my initials monogrammed on the cuff.
My average jeans a decade or two ago would start tearing off at the buttonhole or ***** seam after a year or so.
Kinda odd that in 2018, these types of buttonhole cameras aren't super easy to find. I mean they have them on spy gear websites, and we all have phones, and there was Google Glass, but nothing super cool that's an obvious choice.
The lens would poke out a buttonhole, and the shutter could be tripped by pulling a cord. The camera could shoot six images on a circular dry plate; the photographer would advance the plate by patting his chest to activate a lever.
All I have to say is that I misread this headline and experienced both disappointment and relief when I clicked through and read about a 'buttonhole' camera.
See also, for example, the financial City of London, where the "uniform" was a pinstripe suit with a bowler hat, umbrella and buttonhole. This uniform only started to die during the 70s, and was pretty much killed by 80s excess.
Buttonhole in a sentence as a verb
Instead what you may want to do is buttonhole people or small groups with deep knowledge of the decision area, ask for their input, debate if you must, and then go out with a united front.
I paid my way to GDC, then faked my way into E3 when that didn't work, managed to buttonhole the right guy there, got his business card, called him every other week, eventually got my foot in the door and started a nice long career in video games. Now games are all corporate, though, so of course I'm doing an internet startup.
The f10, fixed-aperture lens poked through a buttonhole of the waistcoat and, as a further aid to concealment, was designed to look like a button. Exposures were made on a circular glass plate that was rotated after each exposure by turning a knob protruding from the front of the camera.
We should stop calling anything a button which is not used to fasten cloth via a buttonhole, even if the entire English-speaking world uses the term euphemistically to refer to round things.
Of course, if I actually was able to buttonhole some guru at Google who understood the business and my situation, they would just look at me like I was an idiot and say "we warned you that if you turned off the various personalization features the ads wouldn't be relevant". But if I left every option turned on, the ads wouldn't be better, just creepier.
If you're paranoid enough to think that anyone wearing Glass might be not only recording you but also painting over the active-camera light and lying to you about it, then I don't understand why you're not also worried about everyone on the street having buttonhole spycams in their lapels. Surely our hypothetical lying spy would prefer something less obtrusive.
Buttonhole definitions
a hole through which buttons are pushed
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
See also: lobby