Sentence examples for affixed an from inspiring English sources

Before sailing, the crew had ringed the deck with barbed wire and affixed an electric wire to the gunwale, hoping to prevent anyone from boarding the ship uninvited.

(In 1975 a Chinese expedition from the north affixed an aluminum ladder to the step that now makes climbing it much easier).

Local health officials had affixed an "unfit for human habitation" sign on her front door by last Thursday, and no one was at the house on Tuesday night.

Over by the cat-food bowls, her mother had affixed an oval embroidery hoop around the last remaining drawing, Jewel's actual baby teeth dotting the frame, along with some Scrabble tiles that spelled her name.

And after the musicians had provided their ceilidh and sailed back to Achiltibuie, the young ones affixed an iPad to some speakers and danced until daylight began to creep over this remote corner of Scotland.

According to an analysis by a curator at a British arms museum, the 11 men were each holding a TD-2007, a Chinese-made toy replica of the MP-5 submachine gun, marketed as appropriate for children above the age of 5. To each, the men had affixed an extension — perhaps a painted dowel or a section of pipe — masquerading as a long barrel.

Someone had affixed a red square to his lapel.

A car ahead of us had affixed a poster to its rear window.

For a target, he affixed a saucepan lid to a wooden post.

His manufacturer had affixed a little rubber tag to his backside.

The first pages she tackled she bound in wire, attached a strand of hair, affixed a gold tooth.