Example Sentences

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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

He sat above the fire on a thick twig perch Deydey had fastened between the mortared stones.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich