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Example sentences for "affixing"

Lexicographically close words:
affirming; affirms; affix; affixed; affixes; afflatus; afflict; afflicted; afflicteth; afflicting
  1. He is likely to write the amount in letters on the center line of the body of the check, affixing the fractional part of a dollar in the form of 100th parts of that unit.

  2. The removal of characters from a paper is effected either by erasure (seldom by pasting some opaque objects over the characters, painting over them, or affixing a seal, wafer, etc.

  3. There appeared nothing but "warder and fetters for the Graeme" as the justice was in the very act of affixing his sign-manual to the committal, when lo!

  4. In a desperate emergency young Clifford committed forgery, affixing to securities of immense amount, his father's name.

  5. Moet & Chandon, and other champagne producers, have adopted the unique method of affixing their trade-marks to the bottom of the corks of their bottles.

  6. Many ingenious devices are used by manufacturers in affixing trade-marks.

  7. He can even, if his savings are made from day to day, use the penny stamp slips introduced by Mr Fawcett, affixing a stamp whenever he has a penny to spare, and paying in the slip when it is worth a shilling.

  8. My LORD, As it is natural to have a Fondness for what has cost us so much Time and Attention to produce, I hope Your Grace will forgive an endeavour to preserve this Work from Oblivion, by affixing to it Your memorable Name.

  9. I ought to tell you the story connected with his birth; but it is one of pain and shame, and, on reflection, I feel that I have no right to injure him by affixing to his early birth an opprobrium of which he himself is guiltless.

  10. The captain had completed his letter, sipped his soda-water, and was affixing to his communication his seal, when he heard the rattle of a post-chaise without.

  11. A compound demonstrativ pronoun is formd by affixing the enclitic particl =-uh= to the simpl demonstrativ.

  12. Every' is renderd by affixing =-uh= to the interrogativ pronouns.

  13. Taking these words in order, we find in the first place that the Jewish Bible accepts the translation of the words cos and yanshuph, merely affixing to them the mark of doubt.

  14. Nouns can be transposed into verbs by affixing evok and ovok, and the adjective is altered in the same manner.

  15. We have had a recent instance of the use of the stampilla, as it is called by diplomatists, in affixing the royal signature.

  16. As we shall see more fully later on, it depends on Language, or on the power of affixing names to abstract and general ideas.

  17. London Bridge, as early as Shakespeare's time, was a place allotted for affixing the heads of persons executed for treason.

  18. It is remarkable, that Shaftesbury, afterwards the champion for the test against popery, was made chancellor, chiefly for the purpose of affixing the great seal to this declaration, which the Lord Keeper Bridgeman refused to do.

  19. An apostolic prince should, perhaps, have objected to affixing over the principal entrance of a metropolitan church an inscription having a reference to any other triumphs than those of religion.

  20. And that through toleration thereof, other abuses in hinging of Pensils and Brods, affixing of Honours and Arms, and such like scandalous Monuments in the Kirk, hath crept in.

  21. I saw on a desk an iron instrument, of which I took possession; it had a rounded point and a wooden handle, being used by the clerks of the chancery to pierce parchments for the purpose of affixing the leaden seals.

  22. When I had got the oyster again I could restrain myself no more, and affixing my lips to one of the blossoms of her breast I sucked it with a voluptuous pleasure which is beyond all description.

  23. It was this, no doubt, which gave him the idea of adding to his income by charging a pistole for signing patents for land and affixing the seal.

  24. Rarely does the young peasant girl pay a visit to her sweetheart without affixing behind her ear a sprig of Basil, which she takes special care not to part with, as that would be a token of scorn.

  25. They had a custom of affixing a Laurel-bough over the doorway, in the case of a severe illness, in order to avert death and drive away evil spirits.

  26. For fraudulently signing or affixing a fraudulent signature to a work of art.

  27. The two lowest pipes of the Pedal Open Diapason were each made to give two notes by affixing a pneumatic valve near the top of the pipe.

  28. He restrained too emphatic vibrations in the case of the larger reed tongues by affixing to them with small screws, weights made of brass.

  29. The opponents of the bank, and especially Mr. Jefferson, presumed to censure the president because, in the conscientious exercise of his power, he made the act a law by affixing his signature.

  30. It is probable that shortly after this the prepayment of the registry fee was indicated by the affixing of stamps of the required value.

  31. This has been issued in response to the demand of the public for a stamp having the value of three cents so that postage and War Tax might be paid by affixing one stamp.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affixing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.