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Soon, surgeons were fastening the disc of skull — newly notched to let the rerouted artery pass through — back into place with tiny mending plates, and closing her scalp with forty staples.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2018

Then she saw that they were fastening a strong metal ring to the top of it.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Children were in school; men were at work; and most of the women were fastening their corsets and getting ready to go see what tails or entrails the butcher might be giving away.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Soldiers were fastening on lead suits, talking excitedly to each other, shouting back and forth.

From The Defenders by Emshwiller, Ed

They now found two woodcutters who were fastening their rafts to the bank.

From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Jókai, Mór