Like many other contemporary composers, Ms. Wagner treated the voice as an instrument that just happens to have words attached.

Not least because the words attached in one form or another tell you: Strangers Keep Out.

Some of the cheers had words attached to them.

There were several more snickers with no words attached.

The Suns had finished the season with one word attached to them: resilient.

If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there.

For all but the first person singular, the same forms are used regardless of the part of speech of the word attached to.

Without words attached to a memory, there's just an incoherent feeling.

He had understood it, even though the words attached to the idea were in a language he had never heard before.

"She doesn't want too many words attached to it."