fastness

How To Use fastness In A Sentence

• Test your different textiles for color fastness and degradation to long-term ultraviolet exposure.
• Rommel's army had to be worn down, and if it had been allowed to withdraw intact into the mountain fastnesses of Tunisia, securing a decisive land victory in North Africa would have been rendered immensely difficult.
• Moreover, the sizing does not impact the hand of the fabric or the wash fastness of garments, the company reported.
• There is not much difference, except in the "soothfastness"; the author is closer to his subject, his imagination is confronted with something very near reality, and is not helped, as in the older stories, by traditional imaginative modifications of his subject. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
• What would a representative of such an august organ be doing in an urban fastness of Fife at 11.30 pm if it was not kerb-crawling?
• When the sun of the Stuarts set forever on the bloody plain of Culloden, Prince Charlie fled the stricken field with a few followers to the mountain fastnesses of Scotland.
• Remember peroxide is bleach so test an inconspicuous spot first for color fastness.
• It whinges and begs as it retreats, and we, from the fastness of our concrete-and-steel high-rise castles, despise it.
• She was a robber baroness; she dwelt in a rocky "fastness" -- whatever that was -- surrounded by a crew of outlaws as desperate as any that ever drew cutlass and dagger, and she ruled them not only by native strength of character, but also by the aid of other forces, for she was on friendly terms with the more prominent wood sprites, fairies, and the like, and they brought her wisdom. Flowing Gold
• But fastness is nothing unless you have accuracy too. Test Your Reaction Time