Sentence examples for kept affixed from inspiring English sources

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He had grown up in Cleveland in the Nap Lajoie Addie Joss era, but he was too smart to try to interpose his passion for the Indians on his son's idolatrous attachment to the Yankees and the Giants, any more than he would have allowed himself to smile at the four or five Roosevelt-Garner buttons I kept affixed to my windbreaker (above my knickers) in the weeks before Election Day in 1932.

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But stylishness is a slippery crown to keep affixed to one's poised head.

In wind, he said, they keep the flag affixed to the coffin.

If you need to keep a cable affixed to a surface for easy access, consider a six-pack of iGotTech Cable Clips.

Not only do Detroit's proud residents take offense at the national media's use of their city's name as a synonym for the American auto industry; it also makes no sense to keep the label "Detroit" affixed to corporations that have long since been transformed by suburbanization, global outsourcing of production, and transnational mergers and acquisitions.

Give Attention to the Band The watch band keeps the watch case affixed to your wrist and the preference can go multiple ways.

Companies keep trying to affix touchscreens to our refrigerators and develop more infomercial-friendly variations of the blender, but the kitchen still remains a relatively low-tech sanctuary.

The cloying rah-rah self-congratulation that is usually affixed to this event is kept to a minimum (Holden).

By snatching up billions in Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup shares early last year, the former Goldman Sachs junk bond dealer, who reportedly keeps a brass replica of a pair of testicles affixed to a plaque in his office, made his clients $7.5 billion in 2009.

Carol Williams, 40, who has lived in Newark since arriving here from Tacoma, Wash., as a small child, had her own definition of the word that now seems permanently affixed to Newark: "Renaissance -- it means to keep us out.

INK GLASS The glass of water that I used to wash out my brushes in kept tipping over, so I found a big wide glass and then affixed it to a saucer with clear caulk.

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