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US
/ˈɫiʃ/
]
[ UK /lˈiːʃ/ ]
[ UK /lˈiːʃ/ ]
NOUN
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
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a figurative restraint
kept a tight leash on his emotions
asked for a collar on program trading in the stock market
he's always gotten a long leash - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
VERB
-
fasten with a rope
rope the bag securely
How To Use leash In A Sentence
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- Randall-Maciver and Wilkin illustrate a vertical loom in use among the Kabyles, _Libyan Notes_, London, 1901, Pl. IX., and although the details of the illustration are not clear the text indicates the existence of one heddle: "The warp is decussated by means of a horizontal rod and leashes. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
- Brandt was the impresario who had discovered Carly Simon and unleashed the Rolling Stones on America.
- His right hand held a leash attached to a small white Havanese dog.
- He has been allowed such a long leash and with a ludicrously large pay packet, he must feel invincible. The Sun
- Lose and the hounds of hell might be unleashed. The Sun
- Liberal proponents of American Values praise the freedom that opens the floodgates to gay marriage and pornography; conservatives, the liberty unleashing that locust plague called unrestrained capitalism; neo-conservatives the license for lying, murderous Machtpolitik. Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers
- Alexia slipped the leash on the two Westies before bringing them to the kennel just behind the house.
- He rued that they were hijacking his Utopian concepts to unleash "a free-for-all fucking epidemic".
- Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
