fasten

How To Use fasten In A Sentence

• This state of things was fastened all the more firmly on the people by strong kings such as Hammurabi, who lived about B.C. 2000 and who unified the country under a powerful central government with his own city, Babylon, as the capital. Hebrew Life and Times
• With a few turns of tape, I fastened the plastic cup to the end of the pole.
• In 1883 Mr. Leaf wrote: "I take it that the _zoma_ means the waist of the cuirass which is covered by the _zoster_, and has the upper edge of the _mitrê_ or plated apron beneath it fastened round the warrior's body. ... Homer and His Age
• The lid won't come off accidentally , it's been fastened on.
• The tractor was there with the trailer attached, its tailboard unfastened.
• I put the parchment down on the board, loosely, without fastening it. THE CALLIGRAPHER
• One end of the clay cord was formed into a loop and fastened with a smaller coil of clay wrapped around it.
• How about reaching up your back from behind as if you wanted to fasten some buttons or tie an apron on?
• Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen
• Ring roll, earring fasteners and pouches accommodate all kinds of jewelry.