Example sentences for: tacked

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

  • Palm Sunday with the distribution of holy palms resulted in the palms being made into crosses and tacked over doorways to protect the family from illness or harm.

  • The author writes that he discovered this scandal only after his book was in galleys, which is why the accusation is tacked on as an afterword to what is otherwise a shoddy clip job with no fresh news.

  • For firms with more than 150 lawyers in tow, the range is from $200 to more than $320 an hour, the survey found, not counting the dinners, taxi rides and other extras that are often tacked onto the bill.

  • The sad fact of an extended life span is that you get those extra years tacked on at the end, extending your frailty and neglect, not added to your 20s, extending your time in ersatz anthropology classes.

  • In England, rather more than in the United States, one finds an s tacked on to the French names Marseille and Lyon.


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