How to Use fixed in a Sentence

fixed

adjective
  • That day remains fixed in my memory.
  • The current design for a new bridge is 116 feet high with a fixed span.
    oregonlive, 2 July 2022
  • There’s no fixed amount of tokes that makes a stoner a stoner these days.
    Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The trucks will operate on fixed routes around the clock, seven days a week.
    Arkansas Online, 9 June 2022
  • The idea that there’s a fixed way to interpret anything.
    Madison Feller, ELLE, 30 June 2023
  • The shed measures 4 x 6 feet and features a front door, one fixed window, and a vent at the top for air flow.
    Katie Dubow, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2023
  • Even if a No. 1 seed is forced to withdraw next week, the pairings will remain fixed.
    oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Or would payments remain fixed and the extra funds used only to serve a larger caseload?
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The sight features a fixed rear sight notch built into the housing that kind of co-witnesses with the standard-sized front sight.
    Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Try not to add fixed costs—anything that comes with monthly payments such as a new car or new home—in case your income changes.
    Bourree Lam, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • The fixed three-day schedule — which many had taken issue with — was supposed to take effect next week.
    Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
  • The exhaust exits from the top of the engine cover in front of the fixed wing and is hot enough to create visible distortion waves in the air.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The van will be used as a public transit option, running on semi-fixed routes.
    Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The Humvee parks at one point, becoming a fixed target for would-be attackers.
    Samuel Oakford, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The trucks will operate on fixed routes around the clock, seven days a week, and Gatik has its eye on expanding beyond North Texas.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • The fixed transfer fee paid for Locadia hasn't been released but is expected to be a club record.
    Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 2 Feb. 2020
  • With their share counts more or less fixed, their shares tend to swing above and below the per-share value of their portfolios—and most CEFs trade at discounts!
    Michael Foster, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • On the other hand, there may be a certain naivety associated with a mind that is too fixed or too rigid.
    Josephine Kant, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • One was an elderly woman on a fixed income who lent her car to her grandson.
    Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The rules apply to both mobile and fixed Internet service.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
  • Members deposit a fixed, equal amount of money into a joint pot every month.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Black Friday is now more of a euphemism for weeks of pre-Thanksgiving sales than a reference to a fixed moment in time.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • There are no fixed start and end dates for the holy month, which relies on the observation of the crescent moon and can change every calendar year.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Stephen Herring, 22, with no fixed address, was charged with assault with intent to kill, police said.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Until 2012 the monarch received a fixed annual payment called the Civil List.
    TheWeek, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The Marine Corps wants an air defense version that can shoot down drones, helicopters, and fixed-wing aircraft.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Choose a fixed or variable interest rate as well as a student loan repayment term from 5 to 20 years.
    Zack Friedman, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Leaning against a plexiglass case is the jumar, the clamp that attaches to a fixed rope, worn by Mark Wellman, the first paraplegic climber to make it up El Cap in 1989.
    Alec Scott, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Alyeska contracts pilots to fly Twin Otter fixed-wing airplanes to canvass a wide area with attached radar.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • There really is no fixed point by which to locate the man, which is definitely an aspect of the appeal.
    Ty Burr, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2023

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