Sentence examples for fasten upon from inspiring English sources
"fasten upon" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to attach or secure something onto something else. It can also mean to focus or become fixated on something. Example 1 (literal meaning): She quickly fastened upon the lid of the box to keep it closed. Example 2 (figurative meaning): The news article fastened upon the controversial topic, stirring up a heated debate among readers.
And to this day the failure of America's media to fasten upon Hitler's mad atrocities stirs the conscience of succeeding generations of reporters and editors.
I particularly like them in the form of parabuildings which fasten upon older structures, as if precipitated there by a dense atmosphere of change.
After the class finishes its investigation, students should discuss the following questions: And to this day the failure of America's media to fasten upon Hitler's mad atrocities stirs the conscience of succeeding generations of reporters and editors.
In addition, any section of humanity that we might fasten upon as a group is likely to be part of a larger sociological entity and to have within it smaller entities that might also claim to be "groups".
The teenage Winthrop admitted in his diary of the time to "lusts... so masterly as no good could fasten upon me".
The Conservative fastened upon the alleged statement by Harold Laski, that his party would use violence, if necessary.
The New Yorker, December 5 , 1925P. 4 Not only Bret Harte's Heathen Chinee who contributed to fastening upon poker its enviable reputation.
Assessing the war itself, Howe later wrote that "its cruel fangs fastened upon the very heart of Boston and took from us our best and bravest".
One of them tells of her horror, "... each moment he came near me, and that I could see his eye fastened upon me my veins ran ice.
A Civil War veteran described nostalgia's effects in 1866, noting how it "fastens upon the breast of its prey, and sucks, vampyre-like, the breath of his nostrils.
Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened upon a central figure of transcendingly absorbing interest -- the dead body of an oldest born, crushed by a shell in a position where a battery should never have been sent, and abandoned to death in a building where surgeons dared not to stay?... My pen is heavy.
