fasten

“If there is any error in human judgment, I was the human. I won’t try to fasten it on anybody else.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The implied exhortation is that readers should fasten their seatbelts for a rare old ride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

At designer Rowen Rose, a large orange stone was used to fasten a green or yellow scarf to a matching sweater.

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

Reusable pads look similar to disposable ones but are usually made from cotton or bamboo and fasten around your underwear with poppers.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

So I pull him over to a pine tree, take the belt off my jeans, loop it through the raggedy old collar Shiloh’s wearing, and fasten the belt to the tree.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

David Raya fastens his gloves and breathes out.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Later he fastens his attentions on an unthreatening neighbor and his daughter, who has a crush on Frank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Arciga fastens the headset over his black beanie and enables “Do Not Disturb” on his iPhone, before fastening the phone to his head to record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

As a song—“Just a Little Bit of Light”—plays, he lifts a large menorah from his car, fastens it onto the roof, lights it, and dances beside it, out in the street.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

There’s a heavy metal plate that fastens over it, but right now it’s propped open, and a certain cat is nowhere to be seen.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

On long red ribbons fastened to a metal structure around a tree trunk, people wrote wishes for success at work or school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Before Standard Oil became “the most gigantic, the most cruel, impudent, pitiless, and grasping monopoly which ever fastened upon a community,” it was a start-up.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

A plywood arch bearing the words “Caius Caesar: Preparing For Triumph” had been fastened to the door; the kids were getting ready for the annual Roman pageant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

But the bay vacated by the ice shelf was eventually filled with sea-ice "fastened" to the seabed, helping to partly stabilise Hektoria.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025

While she fastened it to his collar, I took off through the woods, planning to get to the terrace before she did.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

Visitors also encountered the phonograph and early mechanical fastening devices that foreshadowed later developments in clothing closures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Arciga fastens the headset over his black beanie and enables “Do Not Disturb” on his iPhone, before fastening the phone to his head to record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

Following the outcry in Paris, Sargent repainted the fastening securely in place, but he never showed the painting again and was forced to decamp to London to restore his career.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

"You haven't got sausage fingers like mine," jokes the King, when his son struggles with fastening a Coronation robe during a rehearsal.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023

Bucci and Wayne take charge of fastening the set together on the stage.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove