FIXED in a Sentence

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So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside by scattering dust on the place, which covered up the smoothness and the sawdust.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIXED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fixed
 a.  firmly in position; stationary
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
2  "Come here," he said, still keeping his strange eyes fixed on her with an anxious expression.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Colin looked fretful and kept his strange black-lashed eyes fixed on Dr. Craven's face.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Something he had heard Mrs. Medlock whispering to the nurse had given him the idea and he had thought over it in secret until it was quite firmly fixed in his mind.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  As each day passed, Colin had become more and more fixed in his feeling that the mystery surrounding the garden was one of its greatest charms.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  He fixed his eyes on Ben Weatherstaff in his funny imperious way.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  Colin fixed his eyes on him sternly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  But when Colin held forth under his tree old Ben fixed devouring eyes on him and kept them there.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  When he had finished, Ben Weatherstaff was standing quite still with his jaws set obstinately but with a disturbed look in his eyes fixed on Colin.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  Huckleberry's hard pantings were his only reply, and the boys fixed their eyes on the goal of their hopes and bent to their work to win it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  I thought I had fixed up a little surprise for this occasion, but it don't amount to anything now.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside by scattering dust on the place, which covered up the smoothness and the sawdust.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
13  The way things was scattered about we reckoned the people left in a hurry, and warn't fixed so as to carry off most of their stuff.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
14  He had got the dream fixed so strong in his head that he couldn't seem to shake it loose and get the facts back into its place again right away.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
15  They kept Emmeline's room trim and nice, and all the things fixed in it just the way she liked to have them when she was alive, and nobody ever slept there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
16  The car will fail its MOT if we don't get the brakes fixed.
17  A child's personality is fixed in the first five years of life.
18  A fixed proportion of the fund is invested in British firms.
19  Her eyes were fixed on the gun.
20  Insurance contributions are paid at a fixed percentage rate on all earnings.
21  They are not able to get a job interview because they have no fixed address.
22  The mechanic soon fixed up the machine.
23  The tail is fixed on the model plane with nails.
24  We fixed the canoe onto the car's roof rack.
25  A sonnet has a fixed rhyming pattern.
26  The money has been invested for a fixed period.
27  The tail won't come off the toy plane; it is fixed on with nails.
28  Recall that a bond is an asset that earns a fixed sum of money for its owner each year.
29  Well he wasn't going hedgehog-spotting, not till he'd fixed up a deal with the mad scientist.
30  Sex identity is fixed at conception.