Sentence examples for a fastener for from inspiring English sources

The pin had been used, possibly, as a fastener for a garment.

In silver vases, melted paraffin is used as a fastener, for, unlike clay, it will not tarnish the container and can be removed easily with hot water.

This will allow you to retain the integrity of the necklace while you find/locate a fastener for your belt.

If you have to go to a store to purchase a fastener for your new bra, some elastic, padding, or some strap adjusters, why not just buy a new bra?

One curious detail in "Sunken Area," a blue, plastic fastener for a stay-fresh, sliced-bread bag, sits on the raised edge of the cement floor forming the one and only indication that this painfully nondescriptive place has an occasional passer-by.

Self-retained nuts provide a strong, permanent fastener for many types of thin materials; they are threaded blocks held in special enclosures attached to the part by welding, rivetting, screwing, or snap-on attachments.

The app's Toolbox section includes, among other tools, a caliper and a "Nut and Bolt Finder," which determines the exact dimensions of a fastener and saves that information for your shopping trip.

Steiner also split $5 million with his son, Eric, for selling a fastener division to Alcoa in 2002 and promising not to compete.

For example, a fastener with a 3/4 inch (1.9 cm) diameter will need to be screwed or drilled deeper than a fastener with a 3/16 inch (0.47 cm) diameter for proper holding.

"It's like they didn't know when to quit... and where did they get this?" she lamented, singling out an embroidered frog fastener for being obviously machine made.

The best type of fastener for a tile-on-drywall surface is a straight-shaft plastic plug.