Example sentences for: affix

How can you use “affix” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Instead of stapling or stitching surgical wounds, doctors can now affix paper strips to either side of an incision and gently pull them together with a polyethylene zipper.

  • a word (as the noun book), hyphened or open compound (as the verb book-match or the noun book review), word element (as the affix pro-), abbreviation (as agt), verbalized symbol (as Na), or term (as man in the street) entered alphabetically in a dictionary for the purpose of definition or identification or expressly included as an inflected form (as the noun mice or the verb saw) or as a derived form (as the noun godlessness or the adverb globally) or related phrase (as one for the book) run on at its base word and usu.

  • The researchers would like to affix the Ebola glycoprotein to a harmless virus carrying therapeutic-drug or genetic cocktails.

  • During her brief and brilliant mid-'80s career in rock 'n' roll Comstockery, she convinced some labels to affix "voluntary" warning labels to mature material--a ratings system that many younger listeners embraced as a sort of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

  • Agency policy must affix accountability for recording the T&A data referred to in the previous section.


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