Sentence examples for fasten itself from inspiring English sources

The other prototype unfolds and then extends two arms to fasten itself in place (see a video of the process here).

Three months before Simon Martin bought his wife a parrot for Christmas, de Kruif issued a warning in the lead article of Ladies Home Journall: "In American milk today there lurks a terrible, wasting fever, that may keep you in bed for a couple of weeks, that may fasten itself on you for one, or for two, or even for seven years — that might culminate by killing you".

Until you read this article, you've probably never heard of White Plains, N.Y.-based Response Insurance Co., but the name soon will fasten itself to your consciousness.

When it lands, Philae will use harpoons and ice screws to fasten itself and make sure it stays put on the low-gravity comet.

The Fantasia would eventually become one of Tippett's most popular works, though The Timess critic lamented the "excessive complexity of the contrapuntal writing ... there was so much going on that the perplexed ear knew not where to turn or fasten itself".

An implacable accusing stare had fastened itself on her face.

The stiff ceremony that has fastened itself to classical music in the past century recedes.

I am coming!" But use in emergencies does not account for the cellumania that has fastened itself to our ears and belts.

A taste: "We live in the declining years of what is still the biggest economy in the world, where a looter elite has fastened itself upon the decaying carcass of the empire.

To others, he is a barnacle that has fastened itself to the underside of our patent system so tenaciously that the most powerful corporations in the world cannot pry it off.

Already The Return seems canonical, as if it has been there all along: an old-fashioned, satisfying piece of storytelling which looks languorously beautiful, while at the same time fastening itself to your attention like the bite of a snake.