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Example sentences for: tacked

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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.
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.
Even in the American edit, with Raymond Burr tacked on as a portentous reporter, the aura of mourning was palpable.
In England, rather more than in the United States, one finds an s tacked on to the French names Marseille and Lyon.
Such words as limicole, catharping, xebec, siriasis -- as well as boxing the compass, the sails of a full rigged ship, chains, deadeyes, shrouds, halyards, and stays, are all well explained in this book, including pictures of how a square--rigged warship had its sails raised, lowered, and tacked, an incredibly complicated and difficult procedure.