Example Sentences

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Affixed to a fence post, it displayed the house’s name: Somewhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Affixed to the auditorium’s walls are pieces of paper inscribed with audience and community members’ responses to the show’s themes.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

Affixed to microscope slides, the anatomical bits resembled abstract rubber stamp art, no bigger than thumbprints.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2022

Affixed to the passenger-side window, a small sensor was recording the outside temperature and humidity in real time as they zipped through the city streets.

From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2021

Affixed to each is a gold-plated copper phonograph record with a cartridge and stylus and, on the aluminum record jacket, instructions for use.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan