had fastened
- past perfect of fasten.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Some kind person had fastened it around the bicycle rack and any number of subsequent passersby had left it there for me to recover.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
Someone had fastened them to the wall by a white paper phoenix, the mythical bird that rises from the ashes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020
Inside, Dayvon’s grandfather had fastened a black ribbon to the boy’s stocking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2019
Both had become sharp critics of America’s military involvement in Vietnam, yet both had fastened upon the scourge of gross economic inequality as the greatest threat to American democracy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2018
My fingers had fastened on her hand which lay outside the sheet: had she pressed mine kindly, I should at that moment have experienced true pleasure.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
