fasten on/upon something

fasten | American Dictionary

fasten
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈfæs·ən/
to make or become firmly attached or closed:
[ I ]This skirt fastens at the back.
[ T ]Fasten your seatbelt.

Examples of fasten

fasten
A telephone cord, fastened on top of a big pole (table leg).
The unset strand removes the set strand of the right foot, and then another set strand fastens it to a new position on the sidewalk.
He fastened upon text content rather than syntactic structure.
After the mooring line was fastened, one could clearly distinguish their figures in their baggy but quite new cloth gowns.
The upper panel, which is tool coordinated, is then placed and fastened.
Structurally, in terms of both content and, particularly, composition, themes reappear and interconnect, illuminating the suppressed circuitry which fastens moments together.
Thrusting into the foliage dislodged adults and nymphs into a collecting jar fastened to a funnel attached to the bottom of the bucket.
Aphids were restricted to plants by enclosing the plants in perforated plastic bags fastened around the pot using an elastic band.
The impeller is lowered into the tank and fastened to the mount platform.
He wore a tight coat and trousers, and had fastened sticks to his feet to represent the feet of a bird.
The rubberband is pulled out and a little toy animal is fastened at its end.
The spring will be fastened at the other end to a post, which extends up through a hole drilled through the violin-shaped body.
The other skin will be placed on the substructure and fully fastened.
In all cases the eggs are securely fastened to the surface by some sticky material.
The flaps are fastened to the ground in same manner, except a piece left loose at one end to serve as a door.
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