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How to use tether in a sentence

35 example sentences · noun, verb

Tether means a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement. Example: “Since his hours have increased, I feel that he is at the end of his tether.”

Examples of tether by meaning

nounA rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.

  • With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.2013 September 25, Neal Ungerleider, “Put On A Helmet, And You’re In The Story: Why Virtual Reality Journalism Is The Future”, in Fast...

nounThe limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.

  • Since his hours have increased, I feel that he is at the end of his tether.

nounAn attachment to a place, time, entity or person.

  • Despite moving, he maintained a strong tether to his culture back home.
  • The tether to our national identity can never feel stronger than it does over a cup of bad arena coffee in the dead of winter.2019 August 6, Erik Koreen, “Ask Isaac: Minor hockey can be heaven, other people can be hell”, in New York Times
  • But for toddlers who have now lived nearly 16 months in varying degrees of social isolation, the tether to before has long faded, and they now face after without clear recollections of the world to which they are returning.2021 June 28, Caitlin Gibson, “What the ‘return to normal’ means for toddlers who no longer remember ‘normal’”, in Washington Post...

verbTo restrict with, or as if with, a tether.

  • The cowboy tethered his horse outside the saloon.

More sentences with tether

  • Many mobile phones are equipped with software to offer tethered Internet access.From the entry tethered
  • To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.From the entry sheet
  • Upon arrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tent pegs; they had to use rocks and logs to tether the tent instead.From the entry tent peg
  • Some of the brujx claimed mishandling a spirit's tether would get you cursed.2020 September 1, Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys, Swoon Reads, →ISBN. From the entry brujx
  • The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether.2013 November 16, Schumpeter, “The mindfulness business”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8862. From the entry constant
  • The premise: Mankind’s survival is tethered to an über mother figure.2010 February 28, Betsy Sharkey, “In James Cameron’s worlds, women lead the charge”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry über
  • Most microtools for use in medical applications are operated by tethers of some kind.2009 January 13, Henry Fountain, “A Microscopic Tool Inspired by the Human Hand”, in New York Times. From the entry microtool
  • We’ve developed ways to use that to braid the multi-line tether structure that we’re testing in space.2007 April 16, Rob Hoyt, Nell Boyce (reporter), "Space Tethers: Slinging Objects in Orbit?", Morning Edition, National Public Radio…. From the entry Victoria's Secret
  • Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense.2002, Brian Massumi, A shock to thought: expression after Deleuze and Guattari. From the entry inhold
  • Brush border M1 tethers the microvillar core bundle to the plasma membrane of intestinal microvilli (3).1998 January 23, Valerie Mermall et al., “Unconventional Myosins in Cell Movement, Membrane Traffic, and Signal Transduction”, in Science…. From the entry microvillar
  • It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead.1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21. From the entry pierhead
  • The chestnut's white blaze and mane were liabilities after dark, so Cas left him tethered in graze behind the pines.2006, Ralph Compton, John Edward Ames, Deadwood Gulch, Penguin, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry witch's bridle
  • The Mongolic proposal for 'strap, tether' is semantically overpermissive.2005, Martine Irma Robbeets, Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?, page 136. From the entry overpermissive
  • Inside the barns, the cattle were separated by 'boskins' of timber or stone and tethered to posts known as 'rudsters'.1999, Nicholas Crane, Two Degrees West, London: Viking, page 96. From the entry boskin
  • The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111. From the entry team
  • My nephew wounded a plover and as it was only slightly hurt, he tethered it with a string under the house.1919, William Beebe, quoting Edgar Beckett, “Field Notes on the Lizards of Kartabo, British Guiana, and Caripito, Venezuela. Part 3.…. From the entry salipenter
  • The first simultaneous vertical distribution measurements using aircraft and tethered balloon were conducted in Gaocun (a rural site between Beijing and Tianjin) on June 17th.2021 June 15, Zhao Ruojie et al., “Aircraft-based observation of gaseous pollutants in the lower troposphere over the…. From the entry Gaocun
  • It was during those battles that ORBITAL-class armor was deployed to secure and defend the skyhooks and tethers above Earth, Luna, and Mars.2013 September 16, Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, New York: DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry skyhook
  • It drives me batpoop to know the iPhone is MMS and tethering capable, but AT&T prevents it from being utilized on their network.2009 30 July, Cary Preston, "Re: [The Unique Geek] Re: More Coporate bashing", The Unique Geek, Google Groups. From the entry batpoop
  • As it is, each rooster needed to be tethered to his own hut to keep them from pecking each other's eyes out.2004 Fall, Kit Coyne Irwin, “Blind Spot”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 26, number 4, page 108. From the entry as it is
  • Rotation must then have become slightly super-keplerian there, which can be achieved by magnetic tethering to innermore disk regions which rotate faster.2000, E. Aubourg, Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. From the entry innermore
  • Further along on the "naturalness of use" continuum are today's working VR projects where users are tethered by devices such as eyephones and datagloves.1993, Diane M. Gayeski, Multimedia for Learning: Development, Application, Evaluation, page 82. From the entry eyephone
  • A fun alternative in the sea is a “snuba” tour, where snorkelers can go underwater tethered by a breathing tube to an air-supply float on the surface.2010, Marcie and Rick Carroll, The Unofficial Guide to Hawaii, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 290. From the entry snuba
  • Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 150. From the entry Hazara
  • These included the cocontraction maneuver (a shuffling maneuver around a semicircle while tethered to surgical tubing), a carioca (crossover stepping), and a shuttle run (an acceleration and deceleration test).2006, Michael L. Voight, Barbara J. Hoogenboom, William E. Prentice, Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise…. From the entry carioca
  • Near the forest edge stood three big military tents with scalloped air vents along their rooflines and bush pole supports tethered to big sharpened bush pegs.2006, Nigel Turvey, Terania Creek, page 13. From the entry bush pole
  • Traveller horse owners are often singled out as the main contributors to reduced horse welfare with fly-grazing (unauthorised grazing on private land), tethered and abandoned horses regarded as Traveller practices.2018, Michael Cockram, Tarjei Tennessen, Luis Bate, Renee Bergeron, Sylvie Cloutier, Andrew Fisher, Maria Hötzel, editors, Proceedings of…. From the entry fly grazing
  • They are transsemiotic because they are not tethered by the signifying processes that code experience or speaking positions according to given stratifications such as class, gender, nation, and so forth.2017, Adrian Mackenzie, Machine Learners: Archaeology of a Data Practice, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry transsemiotic
  • In addition to the four NAA pilots, three Air Force and one RAF pilot, all based at Edwards, flew the ship after first being checked out on the "tether rig."1994, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, page 107. From the entry ship

Meaning of tether

  1. noun A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
  2. noun The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.
  3. noun An attachment to a place, time, entity or person.

Full definition of tether

Questions about tether in a sentence

How do you use tether in a sentence?
Tether is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Since his hours have increased, I feel that he is at the end of his tether.”
What is a short sentence with tether?
“The cowboy tethered his horse outside the saloon.”
What does tether mean?
Tether means a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.

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