Sample Sentences for
tether
(editor-reviewed)

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    The goat tugged frantically at its tether, racing back and forth.  (source)
    tether = rope tying it to a location
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    I'm guided by the pure Anne within, but on the outside I'm nothing but a frolicsome little goat tugging at its tether.  (source)
    tether = rope (limiting movement by tying one end of a rope to a fixed location and the other end to an animal)
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    They both let the ropes slide through their hands, and the boat fell and hit the water with a slap. It bounced and rocked and pulled against its tether, but Doon's knot held.  (source)
    tether = rope holding it in place
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    Tethered to the ground, on guard, with a very sick person to take care of.  (source)
    Tethered = tied
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    Were we going to steal the clapper of the school bell, or would we tether a cow in chapel?  (source)
    tether = tie
    editor's notes: If you've ever played tetherball, it will be easier to remember the meaning of tether.
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    ...she began to feel as if she were floating and drifting upward. She lifted higher and part of her liked the sensation but another part of her felt untethered and frightened. She tried to find the place in her heart where her life was anchored,  (source)
    untethered = unbound (to earth by earth's gravity)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untethered means not and reverses the meaning of tethered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The tents were being blown from their ties to the earth, and the animals were being freed from their tethers.  (source)
    tethers = rope ties
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    Maybe all that anger was the last string tethering him to sanity as he waited.  (source)
    tethering = tying
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    Mom took me off the BiPAP, I tethered myself to a portable tank, and stumbled into my bathroom to brush my teeth.  (source)
    tethered = tied (by plugging in)
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    He could not understand it until he looked back and saw that what he led at the end of the tether was not a goat but a heavy log of wood.  (source)
    tether = rope
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    Mr. Marconi himself, in his untethered youth, had engineered all sorts of foolishness.†  (source)
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    A few hot-air balloons pulled at their tethers against the darkening pink sky, their passengers shooting safety fireworks at other balloons and passing parasailers.  (source)
    tethers = ropes (holding them down)
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    She couldn't sever their tie any more than she could cut the wire tethering him to the ship.†  (source)
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