fasten on
Example Sentences
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With Islamic State’s territorial base in Syria and Iraq nearly eliminated, terrorism analysts fear Islamist militants fleeing the Middle East could fasten on crises such as those in Myanmar as their next base of operations.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 8, 2018
There were echoes here of last spring, when everyone seemed to fasten on J.S.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2017
Depressive graduate students, loaded with debt and fretful about diminished job prospects, fasten on to the futility running through the plays.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2016
One of the traits of popular collective memory is that it likes to fasten on landmark moments when everything was transformed and after which nothing was ever the same.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2012
Another, which Rontu had chewed off, lay wriggling at the edge of the water, as if it were looking for something to fasten on to.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
