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Sentence count:189+8Posted:2017-05-22Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: addaffixattachclaspfastenjoinSimilar words: tackystackattacktack ontacklestackedattackerattackingMeaning: [tæk]  n. 1. the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails 2. a short nail with a sharp point and a large head 3. gear for a horse 4. (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind 5. (nautical) the act of changing tack 6. sailing a zigzag course. v. 1. fasten with tacks 2. turn into the wind 3. create by putting components or members together 4. sew together loosely, with large stitches 5. fix to; attach 6. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action). 
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91. There is no point booking a package holiday - this contains the essentially free spirit of the tack traveller.
92. Let them dry thoroughly, tack them on to a wall and note the difference in colour shade, value and vibrancy.
93. He admitted that he had gotten us off on the wrong tack, and that we'd need to start again.
94. I do not propose to get involved in what is clearly a diversionary tack.
95. They would search the woods behind the house, and Nockerd would tack the chicken wire tighter around the cage.
96. And that you learn to groom Goosedown, and feed her, and take care of her tack, the whole works.
97. In the spring, you could tack them on a post in your garden to keep the crows. away!
98. I feel that this advertising campaign is on completely the wrong tack.
99. Although the record initially had the band's approval, they soon changed tack when the implications were realised.
100. Fig 28 Once round on to the new tack, the board is steered on to its new course by leaning the rig forwards.
101. It was past three o'clock, but the tack room light, besieged with huge crashing moths, was still on. Sentencedict.com
102. The jury found that Canon Express, on starboard tack, was forced to give way to Prime Factor on port.
103. That promotion angle is also a tack taken by department stores.
104. Eudo had replied through swollen, bloody lips that he knew nothing, so the questioners changed tack.
105. It would have looked, moreover, as though the Government were backsliding, so a swift change of tack was ordained.
106. Do not tack too much in the early stages of the beat and do not let yourself be forced the wrong way.
107. Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood.
108. If all these occur it is a fairly good indication that you should tack.
109. Then, taking the other tack, Stettinius injects his family portraits with a sense of the strange.
110. But first harness[sentencedict.com], tack and carriages had to be spruced up to ensure top marks for turnout.
111. Turn under the raw edge of the top seam allowance and tack in place over the trimmed edge.
112. Yet the most impressive songs take a totally unexpected tack.
113. Pin, tack and stitch along the remaining three sides, including frill or piping, if using.
114. Then he changed tack and asked us if we had any problems with his friends.
115. The coarse, chewy hard tack became my dinner for more than six months.
116. The tack adds to this by rubbing the cheek against the sharp teeth.
117. Tack Turning round by steering into the wind and stepping around the front of the mast.
118. Whilst these are small adjustments, Aldus have changed their tack on two other fronts as well.
119. New Line, the most interesting independent, is taking a different tack.
120. In the House of Lords, the argument went off on a rather different tack.
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