Example sentences for: fixing

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

  • Fixing someone's wagon is teaching them a lesson, and pipe up about grievances: the squeaky wheel gets the grease , because a wagon's hubs rotate directly on the axletrees and squeak if they are not greased constantly.

  • A sense of what should be engaging the country more than all of this comes with a reading of today's WP editorial about the current situation in Serbia . Various diplomats are quoted claiming that Serbian troops under the command of Slobodan Milosevic have shot many ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and through a scorched-earth policy are fixing to let many more--hundreds of thousands--starve to death.

  • Again, I am not opposed to legislative reform, but, if we are going to put our money on legislative reform, we had better get it right, because once that next major postal bill---a reform bill---is enacted, it may be another 30 more years before we get a shot at fixing things again.

  • OUT: Billions for fixing up dilapidated school buildings, and national student testing.

  • The story also has the most details from the trial evidence, such as running quotes from Markhasev's jailhouse letters to another inmate, in which he says that he went to kill a drug dealer who wasn't home and then came upon Ennis Cosby fixing a flat tire, and details about how the informant who turned Markhasev in to get a $100,000 National Enquirer reward testified that the defendant told him he'd killed Cosby.


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