How to Use tether in a Sentence

tether

1 of 2 noun
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  • And me — a tether between the two, taut with the force of home.
    — Tessa Love, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The cars are supposed to have a tether that keeps the wheel attached even in the event of a wreck.
    — Dave Skretta, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Begin with the tether stretched tight between you and the weight sled.
    — Outside Online, 29 July 2020
  • When a xeno is spawned, it is attached to a zone tether.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
  • As things stand at the moment, the end of my tether is already well frayed.
    — Joseph Epstein, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The two would run side-by-side, each holding the end of a foot-long nylon tether.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Watch out for anything the tether can get caught around, such as trees or shrubs.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The vaccinated are at the end of their tether with the holdouts.
    — Jeremy S. Levine, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Both Bitfinex and tether are key cogs in the trading markets.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Then a member of the launch team cut the tether with a Swiss Army knife, and Piccard and Jones shot into the sky.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Here is a frame with the rover hanging on the tether before landing.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Then a tether rope was cut and the aerostat soared up at a 60 degree angle to the applause and cheers of the throng.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In one test, Yaney attached an iPhone to the tether and spun it up to nearly 4,000 miles per hour.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
  • His Stetson cocked just so, his fringed chaps and his pony on the end of a tether are familiar sights in the stakes barn.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • Then, the tether that connected them to a tugboat snapped.
    — Kayla Epstein, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The drones lower the test kits to front yards or driveways via a tether, the El Paso Times reports.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Cupcake has found his bull’s-eye and is darting the ground with turds, so Harold greets them from the utmost tether.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
  • If bond is posted, both would be required to wear a GPS tether.
    — Caitlin Taylor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The peg to the U.S. dollar is meant to give assurance that a tether is as safe as owning dollars.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021
  • An alternate idea was to tie Pluto to a tether at the Nevada Test Site.
    — Gregg Herken, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The devices are then picked up all together with a tool that’s like an ink stamp, breaking the tethers.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Those tethers are long enough to let the buoy barrier shift somewhat.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, the lasers on the wafer are undercut so that they are attached to the source wafer only by small tethers.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Slicing through the tether could cause the tongue to fall back into the throat, obstructing the airway during sleep.
    — Christina Szalinski, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
  • IndyCar introduced wheel tethers, meant to secure wheels to cars even in the event of a crash, in 1999.
    — Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
  • Strained hymns sung by the patients felt like frayed tethers to their respective pasts.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Rear seats have thoughtful tethers for child seats built into the package shelf.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The soft carriers in this story all have a tether inside.
    — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The length of that tether is going to have a big impact on potential uses.
    — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Since a Corvette can go around corners as if hooked to a tether, any Caprice that was meant to keep up would need to learn some fancy footwork.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
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tether

2 of 2 verb
  • The dog was tethered to the fence.
  • They tethered the horses in the shade.
  • The lifeboat that was pulled down was still tethered to the wreckage.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Since the deal went down, Iguodala has been tethered to the Griz.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The cap isn’t tethered to keep it from getting lost or rolling around in the dirt.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2019
  • But being able to tether to your PC opens the door for even more.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Many, tethered by metal rods, seem to float just off the wall.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • When one plants a bean, one tethers oneself to the future.
    — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
  • If tethered to the yard, the animal needs to have access to food and water.
    — Laraib Hashmi, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But the weed inside me tethered my organs and bound my ship to its anchor.
    — Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Men ‘who love the vastness of the skies’ see the world differently from those who have not loosened the bonds that tether them to the Earth.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
  • This battery pack is tethered, via a cable, to the headset.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Papini was bound at the waist by a chain, to which her left wrist was tethered with a zip tie.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Somboon points across the road to a third elephant in his charge, a three-year-old male named Saeng Kaem, who is tethered to a tree.
    — Kirsten Luce, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Your best bet in this case is to tether your smartphone to your computer and use it for video calls.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2020
  • When all the threads that have tethered you to a story are snapped, what you’re left with is the potential to reimagine your life.
    — Sarah Gundle, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Papini was bound at the waist by a chain, which was tethered to her left wrist with a zip tie.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The buoys are made of hard plastic, tethered to the bottom of the river with heavy cable and only about a half-mile long.
    — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Reiman said dogs suffer when tethered outside and during the race.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The people who love you are here to help tether you to reality now.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • This is the deal the media has made in tethering the identities of white people and the working-class.
    — Carmen Rojas, Quartz at Work, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The two ships can be seen tethered together by mooring lines while a crane is deployed on the starboard side of the tanker.
    — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
  • In the gorgeous, gory tableau, the dying ruler appeared trapped at the center of a bloody web, as though tethered there by entrails.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2019
  • That faith is what has tethered him in the high-profile, and at times high-stress, career of bodyguarding the rich and famous.
    — Dustin B. Levy, Washington Post, 27 July 2019
  • Plus, the dog can't be tethered by a choke collar and rope can't be tied directly to the animal's neck.
    — Kaitlin Lange, Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The Sox are no longer tethered to having certain pitchers work with Leon.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Or you’re perched on a stool while tethered to a monitor via headset.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The value of bitcoin ETFs is tethered to the price of their namesake currency.
    — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Some pumps don't tether you to an outlet but still have a wire connecting the pump to a mobile power source, like the Freemie.
    — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2022
  • Sondheim reminds us of what’s possible when the high points of a score are tethered to the high points in a libretto.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023

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