Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "attaching"

Lexicographically close words:
attach; attache; attached; attacher; attaches; attachment; attachments; attack; attacked; attacker
  1. For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.

  2. At Chippenham there was a little waiting, and some loosening and attaching of carriages.

  3. Another and still more winning trait was one attaching to the corners of her mouth.

  4. You KNOW that I have designedly been kept in ignorance of something attaching to you, which, had I known of it, might have altered all my conduct; and yet you say, what?

  5. He was watching the process of attaching it.

  6. The groove about the middle has evidently been made for attaching a handle.

  7. Around this, near the bottom, a groove has been cut for the purpose of attaching a string or securing a handle.

  8. I will unbosom myself freely of some of the grievances attaching to the position of the individual to whom you have applied the term "Literary Celebrity.

  9. Those who brave danger with a full knowledge of it are worthy of praise, but those who do not realize it escape only by a miracle, and without any merit attaching itself to them.

  10. The rank of consuls= is a matter of domestic law, and each state may determine for its own officers the grade and honors attaching thereto in the way of salutes, precedence among its domestic officials, etc.

  11. In addition to all this he was the mouthpiece in the States-General of the deputation representing the Provincial Estates, and exercised in that assembly all the authority attaching to the man who spoke in the name of Holland.

  12. The glamour attaching to the name of Orange was perhaps the chief asset of the new stadholder in facing the serious difficulties into which years of misgovernment had plunged the country.

  13. John had not the art of attaching his barons either by affection or by fear.

  14. Part of a single volume, shewing the clasp, the ring for the chain, and the mode of attaching it: Hereford.

  15. He stood just within the door, looking towards her as he had done on the fateful night when Felicita had told him that she chose his death rather than her share of the disgrace attaching to his crime.

  16. Any scandal attaching to it now would be blazoned farther and wider, in deeper and more enduring characters, than if her life as an author had been a failure.

  17. There was some painful suspicion attaching to Roland Sefton.

  18. Mention has already been made of the superstition attaching to flint arrow-heads in Scotland, where they were popularly regarded as the missiles of Elves.

  19. To return from the superstitious veneration attaching to them, to the objects themselves.

  20. The religious veneration attaching to the Thor’s hammers may, however, have had to do with their interment in graves, at a time when they had ceased to be in ordinary use.

  21. In some instances the ligaments for attaching the stone blade against the end of the handle pass through a hole towards its end.

  22. In the Swiss Lake-dwellings, bitumen was used as a cement for attaching stone to wood.

  23. Much praise was bestowed upon the bravery and devotion of the former page; but he was, very gently, made to understand that with such scandals attaching to his name he could not expect to fulfil any public functions.

  24. The world knows the Suez marine highway only in its utilitarian aspect, and America's interest therein is that attaching to it as an enterprise forerunning Uncle Sam's route at Panama.

  25. This is the chief blemish attaching to the project that gave to art the mausoleum overlooking the Jumna.

  26. The health in labor, considered in all of the relations attaching to it, further brings a comfort and satisfaction which cannot be too highly estimated.

  27. There is really no more personal merit attaching to the possession of superior intellectual powers than there is in the succession to a large estate.

  28. It would be attaching very great importance to one’s smallest sayings, to think a formal retractation requisite every time that one falls into an error.

  29. Therefore the circumstance of time is properly considered as attaching to the copula, which is the sign of predication, and not to the predicate.

  30. In conversation I found Owen and Andrew Smith much inclined to throw over the practice of attaching authors' names; I believe if I agitated I could get a large party to join.

  31. He undoubtedly had, to an unusual degree, the power of attaching his friends to him.

  32. The chief point of interest attaching to this locality is that known as the Maiden's Rock, a perpendicular cliff midway of the lake on the eastern shore.

  33. The interest attaching to the State of Minnesota, as compared with other of the Western States, is two-fold.

  34. The great respect attaching to them is shown by the excitement caused in Athens by the "Mutilation of the Hermae" just before the departure of the Sicilian expedition (May 415 B.

  35. For attaching it to the paper a strong mucilage of gum tragacanth, containing an eighth of its weight of spirit of wine, answers best.

  36. The glory attaching to the name of Prince Henry does not rest merely on the achievements effected during his own lifetime, but on the subsequent results to which his genius and perseverance had lent the primary inspiration.

  37. If the stern is still too heavy, the balance can be restored by driving into the forward point a round-headed screw, or by attaching another small propeller.

  38. In attaching the head, make sure that the two parts are at right angles, and use thin copper burrs or washers under the screw heads.

  39. Fasten the other end about half an inch from lower end of upright, and make a loop at o for attaching the line.

  40. To make it go higher, we must raise point s by tandem flying, attaching another kite and cord to the first one, as shown at x.

  41. These were now fastened at the ends of the arms of the anemometer by attaching two strips of basswood to each ship by wires.

  42. He sailed from Liverpool, on September 1, to begin again where he had started two years before, but with no longer a hope of attaching himself to a President or a party or a press.

  43. The idea of attaching one's self to a married woman, or of polishing one's manners to suit the standards of women of thirty, could hardly have entered the mind of a young Bostonian, and would have scandalized his parents.

  44. The gentle tender-hearted Amelia Sedley was the only person to whom she could attach herself in the least; and who could help attaching herself to Amelia?

  45. The stigma attaching to syphilis as a disease is one of the most tragic examples of a great wrong done to do a little right.

  46. The closing may be done by hand or automatically by screwing a pin into a threaded hole opposite the handle and attaching a small piece of flat steel to the back edge of the turret slide.

  47. The work may be kept from revolving while the centers are being drilled and reamed, by attaching a dog to it close to the tailstock end and then adjusting the cross-slide until the dog rests upon the slide.

  48. There are various methods of attaching cutters to boring-bars and the cutters used vary for different classes of work.

  49. The reamer can be kept from revolving, either by attaching a heavy dog to the end or, if the end is squared, by the use of a wrench long enough to rest against the lathe carriage.


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