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US
/ˈtɛðɝd/
]
[ UK /tˈɛðəd/ ]
[ UK /tˈɛðəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain
How To Use tethered In A Sentence
- The adrenaline fare comes mostly a la carte, but at Queenstown Rafting on Shotover Street, I noticed a three-course tasting menu for about $500: jet boating down the Shotover River—an amuse-bouche—followed by a starter of whitewater rafting and, for the main course, a 440-foot jump above a canyon, tethered to a rubber band. High-Flying Adventure
- Fireworks and the nightglow created by tethered balloons happen after sunset. Times, Sunday Times
- Ben left his horse tethered to the low-hanging branches of a slender pine and walked the short distance to the solitary grave.
- Those troops act as a big security blanket for Seoul and Tokyo, and the last thing China wants is for either of those countries to be untethered from the U.S. security embrace.
- It would be easier to send down one of the robot vehicles, unmanned but tethered to a surface ship, with cameras and that sort of thing.
- The text teletypewriter (TTY) first allowed the deaf to talk on a phone over two decades ago, but the drawback is that in order to talk, users are tethered to a bulky machine. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Deaf and mobile
- A sorrel and black were tethered nearby and an array of tools was strewn over the ground.
- Cows were tethered near the wall, to provide milk, ghee and cow dung for the rituals.
- Firefighters were bemused to wake up and find a large brown and white horse tethered by a rope to their station.
- We spent two nights under canvas with the horses tethered nearby. Times, Sunday Times