Example sentences for: tacked

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

  • The minaret was converted into a bell tower, and a Gothic nave was tacked on to the original structure, followed by a high altar in ornate 16th-century Plateresque style, and some finely carved Baroque choir stalls.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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