How to use ted in a sentence
17 example sentences · noun, verb
Ted means a Teddy boy. Example: “I bet(ted) her £5 it wouldn't rain all week.”
Examples of ted by meaning
nounA Teddy boy.
- The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN
verbTo spread hay for drying.
- Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN
More sentences with ted
- I bet(ted) her £5 it wouldn't rain all week.From the entry bet
- The word dis·ín·te·res·ted·ly is stressed on the propreantepenult.From the entry propreantepenult
- Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.2013, Percy F. Westerman, A Lively Bit of the Front, →ISBN. From the entry buckshee
- Ted Botha's book explores a whole culture, and various subcultures, that revolve around mongo.2006, Fine Books & Collections, volume 4, page 56, reviewing MONGO: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha (2004). From the entry mongo
- Ted Fritchey had him in charge, and underwent many a harrowing experience with his haedine protégé.1914: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus), The Illio, volume 20, page 70. From the entry haedine
- For three days Emmanuel Macron was wooed and fêted by Donald Trump, treated to marching bands and banquets.2018 April 27, William Cook, “Are Macron and Merkel playing good cop, bad cop with Trump?”, in The Spectator. From the entry fete
- Ted began to walk, still dazed, until he found himself among a skein of backstreets so narrow they felt dark.2010, Jennifer Egan, “Good-bye, My Love”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, part B. From the entry skein
- Ted Herbert (pronounced "A-BARE") had single-handedly saved the city.1992, B. Clarence Hall, Clyde Thornton Wood, Big Muddy: Down the Mississippi Through America's Heartland, E P Dutton, page 270. From the entry boogerlee
- Ted waited and waited and then let loose.1949, Jimmy Powers, Baseball Personalities: The Most Colorful Figures of All Time, New York, N.Y.: R. Field, →OCLC, page 254. From the entry blooper
- Ted Cruz (R-Texas) surprised his daughters on Friday evening with an addition to their family: a fluffy white rescue pooch named “Snowflake” (Adorbs!).2014 November 17, Erin C.J. Robinson, “President Obama snuggles a koala and Sen. Ted Cruz adds a furry member to his family: Which VIP had…. From the entry adorbs
- Ted and I have Javerts in our lives, those who will not accept the fact that God the Father has welcomed his prodigal son home.2010, Gayle Haggard, Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour, page 334. From the entry Javert
- It could be fêted and fanfared and ushered into the white-tie events with a guest pass that read Literature with a capital 'L'.2008, Rachel Falconer, The Crossover Novel, →ISBN. From the entry fanfare
- This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic. From the entry fête
- If you were lucky as a child, you were fêted in households other than your own, encouraged to relax, kick back and make yourself at home.2007, Jill Alison Ganon, Sandy Gillis, At Home: Pasadena. From the entry make oneself at home
- Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.1911, Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down. From the entry black
Meaning of ted
- noun A Teddy boy.
- verb To spread hay for drying.
Questions about ted in a sentence
- How do you use ted in a sentence?
- Ted is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I bet(ted) her £5 it wouldn't rain all week.”
- What is a short sentence with ted?
- “Ted waited and waited and then let loose.”
- What does ted mean?
- Ted means a Teddy boy.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ted (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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