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Example sentences for "fixed upon"

  • His majesty repaired to Westminster, when Cobham, changing his tactics, fixed upon St. Giles's Fields as the place of rendezvous.

  • Napoleon himself says, that he renounced his purpose of dismembering Austria when his marriage was fixed upon.

  • Pellisson looked with a surprised air at Fouquet, whose thoughts were from that moment fixed upon a fresh object in view.

  • Mary understood the look that Buckingham fixed upon her.

  • To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

  • And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.

  • All their eyes seemed to be fixed upon her.

  • Frank Raban stood a little apart talking to Rhoda, whose wonderful liquid eyes were steadily fixed upon him.

  • It consists of a flat thimble to receive the head of the needle, and is fixed upon a piece of canvas or leather, across the palm of the hand, hence the name.

  • An iron hook with a straight prong at its hinder part; it is fixed upon a pole, by the help of which a boat is either pulled to, or pushed off from, any place, and is capable of holding on by anything.

  • To-day, I have heard, is fixed upon to speak reason to One who has none.

  • I take for granted that you have fixed upon the 20th for our setting out, and that you intend that Lord Morpeth should come to my house the day before, which will be on Monday fortnight.

  • She was not a shy woman and was in nowise uncomfortable when many eyes were fixed upon her.

  • There was a piercing look in the eyes he fixed upon her.

  • Her thoughts were with the dead child; her whole thought and being were fixed upon it, to call back every remembrance of the little one, every innocent childish word it had uttered.

  • Pelisson looked with a surprised air at Fouquet, whose thoughts were from that moment fixed upon a fresh object in view.

  • I now learnt that near to any lake or pool of water, the highest ground is always to be fixed upon for a night station; even the commandant upon the hill had fires to windward of the house during the whole of the night.

  • Do you imagine, my son, my choice could be a blind one when I fixed upon Louise to share the property which, through years of toil, I have amassed by untiring energy?

  • Upon reaching home, Gerlach sat in his room with his eyes thoughtfully fixed upon a luminous square cast by the sun upon the floor.

  • He beheld Mechtild with her beautiful eyes fixed upon him in an expression of anxiety.

  • They do not like to do it with all those critical and cruel eyes--and there are no eyes more critical and more cruel than young eyes--fixed upon them, and so they give up prayer.

  • It depends upon the relation which we bear to Him, whether it is blessedness or misery to think that He whose flaming eye reads all men's sins and pierces through all hypocrisies and veils has it fixed upon us.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fixed upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advertising matter; commanding officer; fixed capital; fixed charges; fixed direction; fixed idea; fixed laws; fixed period; fixed point; fixed price; fixed purpose; fixed rate; fixed salary; fixed stars; fixed upon; great distance; just possible; like the; little daughter; lord prince; other natives; said earnestly; somewhat later; surface view; wild asses; your presence