Example sentences for: fasten

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

  • About this time the "Fasten Seatbelt" sign would usually have been turned off and the flight attendants would have begun preparing for cabin service.

  • A gap-toothed old woman yelped that the federal government is "getting boxcars prepared with some kind of leg irons in 'em to fasten you into place to ship you to concentration camps."

  • [Lit. to fasten one's nail to somebody]

  • Ranch words of Mexican origin, besides ranch itself, are: rodeo, latigo `a long strap to fasten the cinch to a Western saddle,' corral (a word I could not find in an English dictionary, except in its Afrikaans form kraal, when I needed to know how to spell it some sixty years ago), bronc(o), palomino, buckeroo (which I have heard used only in fun), and chaps, to list a few that come to mind.

  • What all appearances neglected to consider, but the Brookings study did not, was the 2.97 seconds that it takes, on average, to fasten a seat belt.


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