Take two strips of board of the required size, and fasten them together with a piece of muslin, so the muslin will form the top and two sides of the box.
Drummond, the leader, had the sentinel to draw up the ladder they had with them and fasten it to the battlements, to see if it were long enough for their purpose.
Then, slipping up to the borders of Ayr, he sent a party with ropes, bidding them to fasten securely all the marked doors.
Geoffrey's mother would never wear the ring, but he was fond of it, and had a link made at the back to fasten it to his watch-chain.
Well, but do fasten that little pink bow at your throat, and do puff up your hair a little, to show your nice forehead.
After a short while they coil up their trail-ropes and fasten them to the rings.
I returned to my own veranda, and soon I heard the wire door fasten with a click.
He must have been thinking of this for some time, for he had well-twisted and braided ropes made of some of the brocade ready tofasten to the cages, and he had placed rocks in the boat which had been selected with great care.
The men ran, urging me along with them, looking overhead, as if to find a place where they could fasten their diabolical instrument of death.
Fasten it in your clothes somehow, an' be sure you don't get into any row where it can be stolen.
No; I only played him for a jay, as you shall see me do with two or three hundred of these smart fellows here, and he jumped down on me because there was no one else on whom to fasten the crime.
Of course we had no shot to fasten to poor Seton's body.
In our researches La Motte and I had found a hammer and a pair of pincers, which were very useful, as they enabled us to draw out the nails from the other boat with which to fasten on the canvas.
It's my short trapeze that I fasten to the big one.
I'll fasten a tow line on to the ship here, if you'll toss me a coil and taxi away back where there wouldn't be one chance in a thousand of our being seen.
I reckon not, brother, and to make certain that doesn't happen we'll have to tie him up or fasten him to the mast here while we finish looking around.
After he had managed tofasten the bow of the sloop to one of the palmetto trees, Jack crawled aboard.
Then take a weight or stone of Lead, having a Ring, whereunto fasten a stick to keep down the Herbs into the furnace; then boil your water and herbs three or four hours, and as the water doth boil away, adde more.
The Doge continued to stare on the speaker with the fixedness of regard that one might be supposed to fasten on a creature of unearthly existence.
Athos, therefore, commanded Bazin to fasten up his horse and that of Aramis in the same manner.
But after he had gone about two hundred steps D'Artagnan stopped short, alighted, threw the bridle of his horse over the arm of Planchet and took the pistols from his saddle-bow to fasten them to his girdle.
Fasten it to the poop with a rope; put the oars into it, so that it may follow in the track and there will be nothing to do except to cut the cord.
But, now that the duke had escaped, the concierge had seen fit to fasten the gate with a double lock.
Indeed, they did not pause until they reached on the Embankment the spot where the two beautiful youths prepare to fasten on one another their grip of bronze.
In the loneliness of night her thoughts would fasten on him more intently.
The peculiar tissue growth within the uterus called decidua, which occurs normally in pregnancy and serves to fasten the developing ovum to the inner lining of the uterus, may be produced experimentally.
The worms which inhabit the intestines have a sharp biting mouth by which they fasten themselves to the mucous membrane and devour the blood.
These were usually texts of Scripture which, sometimes damnatory and sometimes favorable, would come in a half- hallucinatory form as if they were voices, and fasten on his mind and buffet it between them like a shuttlecock.
The ends were opened apart, so as tofasten the tube to the board, allowing it to rotate round the circle.
There was no tree or root sufficiently near to fasten the painter to, so they took out the anchor, carried it some way inland, and forced one of the flukes into the ground.
That would do, but presently he thought of a still easier way, which was to put a piece of wire round the barrel and fasten it, but not tight, so that it was like a loose ring.
The sight was the only defect of the weapon; how to fasten that on they did not know.
Even then, perhaps, the sea might flush the deck; so he meant to fasten the chest in the store-room on it as a locker, to preserve such stores as they might take with them.
He sat down on the stool (dragged out from the workshop) to think; why of course he would fasten a rope to it, and so haul it along!
Bevis put the barrel in the stock, and began twisting the copper wire round to fasten it on.
Fasten the rope at the cleat," directed the balloonist.
Mr. Sharp, a veteran aeronaut, stopped tofasten guy ropes from the airship to strong stakes driven into the ground.
Don had begun to coil the rope, when he suddenly paused in his task and exclaimed: "Say, how are we going to fasten the end?
If he should fasten on that view, or rather if that view should fasten on him, what could still please and what he admired in her would lose too much of its sweetness.
She had smiled the Guides' smile valiantly through the worst of her misfortunes, but now she was so tired that she felt nothing short of a hammer and two tacks could fasten that smile on to her face any longer.
Get an old biscuit-tin and fasten it up in the tree and put your spirit-lamp in that," suggested Mollie the Guide.
This poetic fancy rather pleased her, and she decided to put on her best evening frock and fasten her hair with a rose velvet bandeau.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fasten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
