The word "attaching" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the action of securing something to something else, either physically or in a metaphorical sense. For example: "She carefully attached the picture to the wall with a piece of tape."
Each household inside the favela makes its own connection to the community's single, slim water pipe, drilling a hole, attaching an elbow joint and running another pipe or hose into their homes.
According to the UK source: "Not so long ago, this was all about attaching crocodile clips to copper wires.
Like other lone-wolf killers, he gained a greater significance to his actions by attaching his personal grievance to a larger ideology.
By attaching horizontal and vertical lines of lengths x and y to the ends of the first line we get a right-angled triangle.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
I have a feeling it's going to be a great year!! My first victory of 2014 #shesaidyes!!" tweeted McIlroy, 24, attaching a photo that showed the large solitaire diamond on his Danish fiancee's finger.
Any viruses that show an affinity towards the material by attaching to it are gathered up.
And seeing what is going on often involves chopping them up or modifying them in some way, such as by attaching fluorescent labels, in order to analyse their activity.
They did this by combining yet-further proteins known to like attaching themselves to Env spikes with other proteins they hoped would trigger the fusion mechanism and thus cause the viral balloon to burst.
In 1982 Mr Trudeau "patriated" the constitution from Britain to Canada, attaching an amending formula and a "Canadian charter of rights and freedoms" to the old British North America Act.
Specifically, journalists too frequently use "alleged" as their own kind of get-out-of-jail-free card, attaching it to a noun that very much implies the suspect is guilty, without the journalist committing to it outright.Take "alleged Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev", mentioned here.
