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fasten on

v. adopt; "take up new ideas" [syn: take up, latch on, hook on, seize on]

Usage examples of "fasten on".

But now Ayyar saw the eyes in that slack face move, fasten on Jarvas.

In that case, Flame's ability wasn't something it could fasten on, that's all.

His tired mind was trying to fasten on the reason he had instinctively avoided telling his rescuers the truth.

Yet that thing she had allowed to fasten on her did not abate its sucking.

It was a distinct effort for her to fasten on any one object, bring that into clear shape.

It was,a distinct effort for her to fasten on any one object, bring that into clear shape.

O was delighted to feel that if his gray, ardent gaze wandered from her eyes, it was to fasten on her breasts, her hands, before returning to her eyes.

What follows fills him with disgust: two rows of teeth like broken clamshells fasten on his left cheek and saw through the skin.

To fasten on any one of those faint, stricken, dying identities (for dying they truly were) would avail me nothing.

Still she did not appear to see me, her gaze was either turned inward or flew out beyond this place, to fasten on a promised future richer than the moonlight, which was all that clothed her slender body.