Example sentences for: fastened

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

  • The literal-minded among us have fastened on the inaccuracy of the retained word dial for what many now have on telephones.

  • English fastened upon foreign words with gusto, transforming and anglicizing them to lend grandeur and subtlety to the vernacular.

  • He lingered on it, slowed it down, fastened on blood-spurting bodies as they hurtled through the air--and ended up making it lyrical, aestheticizing it, distancing it.

  • "As we prepare for takeoff," the flight attendant said, looking at my sister from six inches away, "please check that your seat belt is fastened"--and here she made the requisite clicking and unclicking movements with the demonstration model--"and do take time to look through the safety information in the seat pocket in front of you.

  • The bet being made, a rope is fixed round the waist of the party to be catted and the end thrown across the pond, to which the cat is fastened by a packthread.


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