Sentence examples for that has attached itself from inspiring English sources

"True crime" is the name that has attached itself to journalistic and literary accounts of exceptional human ghastliness.

Take the controversy that has attached itself to another high-profile international literary award: the Man Booker Prize.

A stump moves as if of its own will, like something blind and mute that has attached itself to the body.

Inshallah has become a reflex, a bit of a linguistic tic that has attached itself to nearly every moment, every question, like the word "like" in English.

The absence of democracy in Iraq will be bad for Iraqis, and outside Iraq it will mean that the cynicism that has attached itself to America's reports about military threats will also be attached to America's promises of political salvation.

He talks of Munich as having "the inside track" but admits to a special fancy for Haiti, where even the unsavoury caravan that has attached itself to Ali's heavyweight championship might look wholesome against the local fauna.

There was also something else – the phone-hacking cloud that had attached itself to Morgan dating back to his command of The Mirror.

Holding one of those bars, I thought about all the trinkets that must have gone into it, and all the feeling that had attached itself to them.

But by the time it was over, and the Cowboys had won, 24-17, Toomer at least had a little more ammunition for his argument, and it was time to retire one joke that had attached itself to the Cowboys during Romo's career.

The same mounting hysteria for the arrival of a VIP who is far too important to be named and wants only to be cocooned from any interaction with lesser mortals for the duration of his or her stay; the same fussing over a small speck of dirt that had attached itself to the underside of a sink and might possibly be spotted by a guest when lying in the bath.

First was the succinct manner in which she stripped away the conjecture and the flab that had attached itself to the trial, swatting away much of the prosecution's circumstantial evidence and bringing the issue of reasonable doubt back to the fore.