How to Use fixation in a Sentence

fixation

noun

• For the right, the fixation on Hunter Biden boils down to a few things.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
• My fixation helped to pass the time, the long empty days.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• Things moved quickly, with a lot of fixation over the right ribbon and the right box.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• The scandalous trial became THE tabloid fixation of the day.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• And, so ended that fixation, or so some might have thought.
  — Howard Rosen, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• But the mystery of who killed Michelle Schofield is the primary fixation.
  — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
• My leg was repaired with eight screws, a plate, and a high-strength polymer cord known as a tightrope fixation.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• The third goal of the era’s fixation on prehistory was the most selfish.
  — Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
• Your friend’s fixation on setting you up isn’t about you.
  — cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
• Shifts fixation across midline (moves gaze from left to right).
  — Emily Cook, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
• Dan’s fixation on Kelly and what happened to her drives him to the brink of his sanity.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• But a fixation on the future by now goes far beyond crop cycles and long-term loans.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2020
• Buffalo's wing fixation helped spread the dish, but the origin story is a bit hazy.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
• This fixation on race and gender plays much better with the left-wing-activist class than with the public.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
• Biden brought his fixation on Roosevelt into the White House.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• Gilbert did not share the universal fixation with Gauff’s forehand, deemed to be her one weak spot.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
• The McVicar fixation aside, the current Met season looks to be one of the liveliest in recent memory.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Geula wondered if Eggers’s fixation with the past, and his taste for the macabre, was a way of searching for his father.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Each pair comes with four sizes of sealing gels for customization, fixation wings to keep the plugs in place and a removable leash.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• In what ways does this fixation with who threw the first brick limit the depth of our ongoing discussions of our past?
  — Wren Sanders, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
• Rutherford can date his fixation with changing back to age five.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 21 Dec. 2020
• An episode of highs and lows, both in terms of how often the bits hit and in introducing season ten’s twin plot fixations.
  — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
• Hence the fixation on Simpson’s blunders, as well as all the burping, farting, and foul smells that punctuate the show.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• This is why the fixation on civic activism is so misguided.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• And yet the fixation is placed on Lively's suitability to her role.
  — Charley Ross, Glamour, 30 Jan. 2023
• The next year, Stewart’s Earth Abides took his disaster fixation to its inevitable conclusion: the end of the world.
  — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• And her kind of fixation has lasted for several years now.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 May 2021
• The Thomas fixation continues throughout the evening without him on the panel.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
• But this theory is complicated by how perfectly Vance’s rightward turn has tracked the fixations of conservative activists and élites.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• Part of the fixation on cultural algorithms is a product of the insecure position in which cultural gatekeepers find themselves.
  — T.m. Brown, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025