Example Sentences

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Chinese state-owned news outlet The Paper said that local officials were attaching "great importance" to the issue.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

“The vitriol that people were attaching you with, and people that we both know.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022

It's even revived the career of Steed Malbranque, an entity previously so lifeless strangers in County Durham were attaching floral tributes to it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2010

He saw us, however, and immediately wigwagged with his handkerchief to several others down at the bridge where they were attaching a pair of wires to the planking.

From The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

A new attraction was appearing there, in the shape of Chinese lanterns, which the servants and others were attaching in great numbers to the trees and shrubbery.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan