Sentence examples for had fastened from inspiring English sources

An implacable accusing stare had fastened itself on her face.

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

Rather, somehow, people had fastened onto the book's title - "Shut Up, I'm Talking" - and taken it in an unintended direction.

In his search for freedom from musical rigidity, Martinu had fastened on the madrigal as the ideal.

For Johnson, this was clear evidence that sinister pro-EU operatives had fastened a muzzle on Longworth.

News Corporation conceded that MPs had fastened on "hard truths" in the report into the phone-hacking scandal.

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

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

THE boulangeries in the surrounding villages have fastened their shutters and closed up for August.

And, judging by his questions this morning, it is this invention that Kennedy has fastened on.

"Venus has fastened on me like a tiger," she says, her hand falling across her abdomen, and you believe her.