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Example sentences for "affixed"

Lexicographically close words:
affirmed; affirmeth; affirming; affirms; affix; affixes; affixing; afflatus; afflict; afflicted
  1. In all innocence before his palace he had affixed two shields with votive inscriptions.

  2. In Hebrew, Greek, and Latin he had a writing affixed to Jesus' cross which read, "The King of the Jews.

  3. The tube is first filled with purified mercury, and then inverted, and there is affixed to it a scale to mark the height of the mercurial column, which comparatively seldom rises above 31 inches or sinks below 28 inches.

  4. It was the sixth of the Roman year, and hence was called Sext[=i]lis till the Emperor Augustus affixed to it his own name.

  5. True, it bore Fastolf's seal of arms, which Yelverton and Worcester at first endeavoured to prove must have been affixed to it after his death.

  6. A minister is now politically responsible for everything that occurs in his department, whether countersignature or seal is affixed by him or not; and all the ministers are jointly responsible for every highly important political act.

  7. The rules requiring seals or signatures to be affixed to royal acts, though somewhat simplified, remain in force to-day, but they have ceased to be the real source of responsibility.

  8. Just look at it, his seal is not affixed to the paper.

  9. There is the capitulation; I have already affixed to it my name and title as commissioner of the Emperor Francis.

  10. Grizzy began to feel a sort of tightness at her throat, at which was affixed a very fine pebble brooch pertaining to Nicky, but lent to Grizzy, to enable her to make a more distinguished figure in the gay world.

  11. The most remarkable feature of this vessel is the pair of unique figures affixed to the upper surface of the body near the lip, and which would seem to be intended to represent semihuman monsters.

  12. Two rudely modeled, semihuman, grotesque figures are affixed to the under surface of the bowl, supporting it with their backs.

  13. Two have minute projections resembling handles affixed to the rim.

  14. Incised markings at the ends of the handles represent hands or feet and eyes are affixed to the upper part of the legs.

  15. Weston Colville has also a brass, now affixed to the wall, and too much damaged for identification.

  16. It is said that he caused these bars to be put up, from his constitutional dread of fire, and that he kept a stout rope constantly affixed to them as a means of escape in case of need.

  17. Public scribes wrote many private letters, much in the same way as a lawyer of today might draw up some document, and to the letter so written, the sender affixed his seal.

  18. Letters and documents were never signed in these ages--rather, one affixed his seal.

  19. A particular trick of his is also to divide his arguments after the manner of the preachers of his day into heads and subheads, with actual numerical signs affixed to them.

  20. Names of things to be affixed to them, or written on them.

  21. They are set into the bed of dressed stone capping the foundation, and are connected together by bars of iron and affixed to the masonry by foundation bolts.

  22. The whole mechanism is affixed to solid cast-iron frames, and the machine itself may be mounted on wooden supports or a metal frame.

  23. To these bedplates are affixed the standards by means of bolts and keys.

  24. For examples of Creusia, we must examine our madrepores, and other corals; the shells of this genus are either affixed or buried in them.

  25. There is, however, no doubt that the Authorized Version is perfectly correct; and it is followed by the Jewish Bible, in which no mark of doubt is affixed to the word.

  26. However, the mark of doubt is affixed to this last phrase, and it cannot be denied that the rendering of the Authorized Version is at all events more consistent than that of the Jewish Bible.

  27. The word is Tzab, and is rendered in the Hebrew Bible as "lizard," but with the mark of doubt affixed to it.

  28. I knew the anguish that would crush his heart, if he should ever learn that the false brand of the assassin had been affixed to the brow of his adopted child.

  29. The cross which is affixed to the rod on which the Easter Palms are fastened is made of Elder-wood, as well as the cross which is carried before the coffin in the funeral procession.

  30. Elder, gathered on the last day of April, and affixed to the doors and windows of the house, disappoints designing Witches and protects the inhabitants from their diabolical spells.

  31. A cross made of the Elder, affixed to cow-houses and stables, was supposed to protect cattle from all possible harm.

  32. A Boston town meeting of October 28 had been concerned with the report that "Stipends are affixed by order of the Crown to the offices of the Judges of Superior Court.

  33. To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting.

  34. The old chemists have affixed the name of calx not only to metals in this state, but to every body which has been long exposed to the action of fire without being melted.

  35. What I have already said may suffice to determine the idea affixed to the word caloric; but there remains a more difficult attempt, which is, to give a just conception of the manner in which caloric acts upon other bodies.

  36. Half an hour later when he had affixed a new tire to the wheel, he and Milly sat, warmed and comforted before blazing logs, waiting for her clothes to dry out.

  37. To all this, duly set forth in a specious contract, the girl affixed her signature.

  38. To that end he caused a proclamation to be written, and to be affixed to the door of the village church at the fair of Evesham.

  39. At nightfall the cartel of Sir Rudolph was torn down from the church and that of Cnut affixed in its place.

  40. As we rode along, I remarked near some of the lodges a kind of tripod frame, formed of three slender poles of birch, scraped very clean, to which were affixed the shield and spear, with some other weapons of a chief.

  41. The Proper Kind of Reel For fly fishing nothing is so good as the English style of click reel, which is made with a one-piece revolving side plate and with the handle affixed directly to it.

  42. If the forward grip is affixed to the ferruled end of the tip, two tapered thimbles will be required to make a nice finish.

  43. It is practically impossible to gauge the balance of a rod without affixing the reel, and many a finely balanced tool will appear badly balanced until the proper-weight reel is affixed to it.

  44. Asté was honoured with a long visit from Pitton de Tournefort, a celebrated French naturalist, and the fact is commemorated by an engraved tablet affixed to the house in which he passed his nights.

  45. Arago, was not received in London until the 24th of November in that year; and it may be farther observed, that the numbers of this journal were very commonly published several months after the affixed date.

  46. The whole is protected by strong iron supports D, to which a ring is affixed for the convenience of carrying it.

  47. By that time my advertisements had been affixed in all parts of the city, and several New Testaments had been sold; I myself had the pleasure of seeing three despatched in less than a quarter of an hour that I remained in the shop.

  48. I shall forthwith cause a thousand advertisements to be printed and affixed from time to time in every part of the city.


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