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Example sentences for "fixes"

Lexicographically close words:
fixed; fixedly; fixedness; fixer; fixers; fixing; fixings; fixity; fixt; fixture
  1. There is no close time fixed by law for killing stags, and some proprietors do not even limit the season, which really fixes itself by the condition of the deer.

  2. She uplifts her eyes, too, and fixes them on Mrs. Chichester the frivolous.

  3. As she draws closer to him, he fixes his eyes upon her as if to compel a glance from her in return; but Tita, who is accompanied by Minnie Hescott, does not so much as once let her gaze wander in his direction.

  4. She fixes her eyes full on his--eyes merry with mischief.

  5. She laughs gaily, and suddenly looking up at Rylton, who is looking down at her, she fixes her eyes on his.

  6. Quick fixes and artificial stimulants repeatedly applied over decades are what brought us the inflationary disorders that we've now paid such a heavy price to cure.

  7. We have an economic program in place, completely different from the artificial quick fixes of the past.

  8. Cæsar, whose evidence ought to be conclusive (inasmuch as he knew of Germany as well as of Gaul), fixes them to the south of the Marne and Seine.

  9. Now the termination -us is the termination of an adjective, and is not the termination of a genitive case; a fact that fixes the onus probandi with those who insist upon the genitival character of the words in question.

  10. This fixes the maximum rate that may be charged.

  11. The comptroller has the absolute appointment of all receivers and fixes their compensation.

  12. The thorny spray is torn off, and fixes itself in its hairy coat, until brushed off again in other thickets and copses.

  13. Thus it fixes its minute egg upon the caterpillar, which being hatched, destroys it.

  14. The fact that Fareham (Fernham, Ferham) formed part of the original endowment of the see of Winchester fixes its existence certainly as early as the 9th century.

  15. The surprise of the child on first hearing that there is anything that his parents do not know fixes the fact in his mind.

  16. I had read, chill and trembling, when I came to the part where the Moor fixes a pistol over the robbers who are asleep.

  17. The common sense of mankind in this and every other country fixes a certain age when men and women shall be regarded as mature and qualified to take care of themselves.

  18. This clause fixes the class of voters; the other clause is in subordination to that, and merely provides, that as touching qualifications, there shall be one and the same standard for the Federal and for the State elector.

  19. It largely fixes our status as thinkers and philosophers of the times.

  20. He was still at college in Vienna when the sudden death of his father raised him to the Khedivate; and he was barely of age according to Turkish law, which fixes majority at eighteen in cases of succession to the throne.

  21. In 1803 an act refers to the addition of burnt, scorched or roasted peas, beans or other grains or vegetable substances prepared in imitation of coffee or cocoa, to coffee or cocoa, and fixes the penalty for the offence at L.

  22. He thus fixes the date at the same period as Isaac Taylor had done in his Greeks and Goths and The Alphabet.

  23. His gravestone fixes the day of his death as the 21st, but there are grounds for the belief that it was the 25th.

  24. In the case of a mixture of Neradol D and vegetable tannins, the former quickly diffuses into the pelt and fixes the fibres, thus facilitating penetration of the vegetable tannins.

  25. The latter, when treated with formaldehyde in the cold and then finally heated, gradually fixes the formaldehyde and forms a substance soluble in water.

  26. Dimethylaniline, C6H5N(CH3)2, when treated with sulphuric acid, yields a product soluble in water which neither reacts with nor fixes formaldehyde.

  27. The result is in the hands of Him who fixes and determines all results; he will do therewith as seemeth good unto himself.

  28. Then hastily rose the good pastor, Took up the word and said: "The moment alone is decisive; Fixes the life of man, and his future destiny settles.

  29. It appears, then, that these letters do not establish a great deal; the legal gent fixes the time when he heard the poem by the date of a paper which he thinks was drawn up at a certain period; H.

  30. One authority fixes the neutrals as being black, gray and white; another regards them as those hues or tones which lack definite color, like quaternaries.

  31. It gives precision to our thoughts, and more firmly fixes the march of events.

  32. In the opinion of many this fixes their date in the Bronze Age.

  33. When he establishes himself out of the city, out of heaven, he fixes the day of curse.

  34. When he comes out of the house out of the city, he fixes the mighty day.

  35. One of the old laws of Roussillon, significant of the state of the country, fixes the rate of payment at which crimes might be committed.

  36. He takes them for his companions, and fixes them in his shoes, partly to show him the path, and partly to keep off serpents.

  37. Death, which seemingly conduces to study by its immobility, is deceitful; it fixes the mask for a moment, and the object beneath melts away.


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