Example sentences for: fastenings

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

  • Fastenings are often laces--these never lose their cool, even after millennia--or else the kinds used for clothes and belts, most recently snaps and Velcro.

  • The natives seemed friendly enough, rowing out to greet Cook’s ships, which received much-needed provisions in exchange for fastenings and other trinkets.

  • Opposed to that is the lethal weapon style, which usually involves a fierce high heel, often skinny and slanted in an odd direction, like a half-open switchblade, with fastenings for the shoe that run to grim metallic buckles or very toothy zippers.

  • The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.

  • And can this be explained without resorting to the phrase "dumbing down" or alluding to the questions on that Who Wants a Big Bucket of Money quiz show being multiple choice about the Brady Bunch , not like in the old days, when quiz show questions were so hard that you had to cheat to win, and presidential candidates all spoke in full sentences, in iambic pentameter, in Latin, while wearing complicated wigs and fancy hats and several layers of underwear with fastenings so elaborate you had to be like a genius just to undress for one of your Naked Fireside Chats from the Aero White House, a giant dirigible moored to Zelda Fitzgerald.


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