Zipper

//ˈzɪpɚ//

"Zipper" in a Sentence (19 examples)

My zipper stuck halfway up.

This zipper doesn't zip smoothly.

Tom can't get out of his sleeping bag. The zipper is stuck.

He opened the bag's zipper.

The zipper is stuck.

Your zipper is open.

A tent with a floor and a zipper is bug tight.

I have a broken zipper.

My zipper got stuck.

The zipper on my jacket got stuck.

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He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.

I also competed in track and field at Idaho, and it's all because of putting the shot that I've got my long scar, my zipper, down the back of my neck.

Making the transition from high school to college teams, for instance, he could not believe the scars his new players were sporting. "So many athletes had zippers down the side of their knee, or knees; they thought nothing of it and called this or that a Band-Aid operation. […]

[…] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol.

They would handle all the night combat air patrols, the night hecklers who would go over the enemy airfields, and we formed a new little gimmick called "zippers" to help close that gap between the time the daylight strikes left the target and darkness.

Skills acquired include learning the "Flea Hop" and the "Tarzan Swing" as well as "Riding the Zipper" (sliding 400 feet on a cable between two mountain peaks), canoeing in white-water rapids, bushwacking and learning to "rappel" hundreds of feet down sheer rock cliffs on a rope.

He zippered his sweater against the cold.

These fall jackets are zippered.

If more drivers knew how to zipper, the accident would not have disrupted traffic so much.

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