Sentence examples for fasten onto from inspiring English sources

That's definitely how it felt – as well as flapping in the wind, it didn't fasten onto my face properly.

That is, they fasten onto those aspects of the present that most arouse their curiosity -- in Stephenson's case, computers and modern finance -- and treat them as historical inevitabilities.

The mind cannot fasten onto this sort of temporality; we are unable to give it concrete meaning in relation to our own lives.

A presidential race tends to concentrate our minds on simple questions and to fasten onto life roles and choices as object lessons.

This sport (well, arguably) consists of dangling chicken necks tied on lengths of twine into the river's shallows and waiting for a crab to fasten onto one.

Meanwhile, legal recourse makes it possible for those with deep pockets to fasten onto a single issue that affects their interests without the necessity of winning others to their point of view.

Indeed, she had fastened onto our house with the tenacity of a monomaniacal abalone.

He wrote a book about her before he fastened onto Murray.

Some observers have fastened onto a particularly interesting explanation: it's about taxes.

That's partly down to journalists who didn't really understand Snapchat fastening onto the sauciest angle when covering it.

Mr. Biden has fastened onto missile defense as the centerpiece of his critique of Bush foreign policy.