fasten
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Learning how to put on a helmet and how to fasten shoulder pads became his biggest challenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Thirty-three involved a long straw design and 21 were pillow bottle-holders designed to fasten around a baby's neck.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
“Make sure you fasten them planks real secure-like, hear me?” said High John.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
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
She fastens chunky gold hoop earrings and clips on her gold Olympic necklace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The adult lacewing feeds mostly on plant nectars and the honeydew of aphids, and in time she lays her eggs, each on the end of a long stalk which she fastens to a leaf.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
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
After the walk-around inspection, I fastened my chin strap and hoisted myself into the bare-carbon cockpit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Her bathroom became a toilet she fastened on top of her septic tank outside and exposed for her neighbors to see — had any of them come back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
My father climbed down from the ridge and gathered up his things—his knife and his harpoon with the long rope fastened to it.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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The fiscal depute said the Crown position was that the number of fastening clips had been insufficient, and wave action on the journey would have been sufficient force to cause them to fail.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
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
Kondo brought garments to life, like kites in the sky with voluminous silhouettes created by fastening and unfastening buttons.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
“You are my only granddaughter, and I want you to have it,” Gram declared, fastening the chain around my neck.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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