Tacked in example sentence

And on Wooster Street, in a building with the creaky hallways and the loft with the 12-foot ceilings and the darkroom with too many sinks under the color-balanced lights, she found a note, tacked to the wall with a thumb-tack, left over from a time before towers, from the time before babies.

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We just took a simple sailing boat and we tried to pull something long and heavy, but as we tacked back and forth, what we lost was two things: we were losing pulling power and direction.

Brass nails tacked into the ebony wood, your face has been carved five times.

They handcuffed him to a chair, and they tacked his penis to a table with a six-inch nail, then left him there to bleed to death.

And that's what you see here: These little salt spots are just DNA tacked onto glass, and so I can put thousands of these on our glass chip and use them as a detection reagent.

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