How To Use Tied In A Sentence

An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
Before one embarks on this high flying experience, the organisers supply a crash helmet, and a safety waist belt which is securely tied with a long and strong rope to the huge multi-coloured parasail.
We did get a digital box so we could record programs and watch them at our leisure and not get tied to a schedule for tv programs but we end up recording so much that it always seems like I spend more time trying to watch tv and clear space in my digi box than write. On Efficiency, Or How To Get Everything Done As A Multi-Tasking Writer - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
‘The paramilitaries have graffitied threats against us on the walls.’

The midwife cut and tied off the baby's umbilical cord.
Forage crops, pasture, and rangelands are important in feeding ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.
The lonely old man was much to be pitied by all of us.
She said if the Watson Bill was passed she stood to lose her job and tied house at a livery yard at Craigie, near Kilmarnock.
And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
The hospitable host had his spare room emptied very quickly for the honoured guest.
It came with a large red ribbon tied around its nose. Times, Sunday Times
The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The drawer had been emptied of its contents.
Marx said that the commodity exchange process thrilling leap from zero to include asset to the propertied people from the process is also facing such thrilling leap.
The questions were evidently unexpected to the slow-witted spokesman, who instantly found himself tongue-tied.
Prosecutors say he is tied to the crime by witnesses, blood spatters, ballistics and DNA analysis.
Ancelotti will be anxious that the 23-year-old Brazil international, who will be cup-tied in the Champions League, is joining a club who can still realistically retain the Premier League title. Chelsea set to seal £21.5m deal for Benfica defender David Luiz
See how good a man looks in a properly tailored double-breasted tuxedo with a hand-tied bowtie.
Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
She is wearing blue eye liner and blue eye shadow and blue lip gloss and she has her hair tied up high with a blue hairband and two blue barrettes holding her hair in place.
Most of us wouldn't choose a career where everything we interact with is prettied up and dumbed down.
Miss the annual reminder letter and you are tied in for another year. Times, Sunday Times
The most recent hike, as with previous ones, was tied to tight supplies of propylene feedstock.
Fluttering and screaming, the bird made every effort to escape, but not before Dee was aware of a label tied round his neck. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
However, rumours abound that he is about to be left out of the side to avoid being cup-tied for the rest of the competition.
He forced them to open the safe and emptied it of cash, plus expensive watches and prescription drugs. The Sun
The currency was tied to the gold standard.
With seven passes defensed, Landry is tied for 23rd in the league. Redskins at the bye week: the defense
And then, after all the bullshit, when he could prevaricate, elocute, circumlocute, and evade no more, he collapsed like a paper bag emptied of air. Stanton Peele: Public Figures Behaving Badly: Charlie Rangel, George Pataki, Sarah Palin
The woman was white, aged 18 to 20, 5ft 10 in with tied back black hair and dark clothing.
How regularly are the litterbins emptied?
U.K. police arrested a female police officer on suspicion of corruption, as a multipronged probe into alleged wrongdoing tied to the News of the World tabloid continues to gather momentum. What's News—
The place emptied pretty quickly when the fight started.
There is serious reason to believe, though the details cannot be gone into here, that the lorum is represented by the "armill", though this is now a sort of stole which two or three centuries back was tied at the elbows. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Corpus Christi Caller - Riggins handed me a three-weight fly rod with a green popper tied to its tippet.
Stretched out below was a chain of freighters tied up alongside the commercial docks, cranes and gantries cluttering the foreshore. CORMORANT
I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
Lune-atic Yipsie comes with skin and shape with red horns ,..with and without candles red hair,..with and without flowers and bats with her bodytied skinsuit and her rats around her neck she can be found being lune-ing around touch pumpkin on table for lune-atic yipsie move Archive 2008-11-01
If we are tied to a specific date, though, we have no choice in the matter.
This is the most substantive passage in a speech which otherwise is tied together by bluster. Times, Sunday Times
It came with a large red ribbon tied around its nose. Times, Sunday Times
Over the next 7 hours, fuels technicians filled and emptied seven fuel bowsers without further incident.
He'd tied his sneaker laces together, and now had his shoes strung about his neck.
Eire's punt, once tied to sterling, was allowed to float free.
I don't want to be tied to this boring job.
Traffic was tied up for three hours because of the parade.
Baths were taken in tubs and emptied after use on shrubs in the courtyard.
The term asymmetric warfare is bandied about, another few words, 'hands tied behind backs', would be more appropriate. logdon On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
‘When politics appropriates art, it is transformed into an object that is emptied of its meaning,’ he said.
An 'the ould mother fox she lifted the lid o' the pot, and the rashkill untied the bag, and hild it over the pot o 'bilin' wather, an 'shuk in the big, heavy shtone. Faith Gartney's Girlhood
The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree's branch.
The score was tied two-to-two.
The stadium can be emptied in four minutes.
A number of questions crowded to Gregory's mind, as they crossed the jettied inlet and headed down the coast. El Diablo
Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.” Archive 2009-03-01
Cast members from the movie will be appearing in citied around the United States. Twilight: EW Covers, Advance Ticket Sales and Tour Dates | /Film
You're eating lunch in the cafeteria, wearing your scrubs, your high-tech stethoscope around your neck, a hemostat clipped onto you somewhere, tourniquets tied onto it. Excerpt: Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
In the early part of this century there was a young girl examined in New York whose ureters emptied into a reddish carnosity on the mons veneris. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
They had children and were consequently tied to the school holidays.
One of the shoelaces on her sneaker had come untied and was blowing vulnerably in the wind.
A bladder which is frequently emptied does not expand to its full capacity and needs gentle stretching to bring this about.
Married at an early age, the Florentine woman from the propertied classes did not own either her dowry or the rich clothes and jewels which bedecked her during the wedding ceremony.
They tied him to a chair with cable.
Growling and sweating the ursine fellow untied the knot, picking at it with clumsy claws, then reeled her down fast. A TIME OF WAR
Others in slalom: Lindsey Kildow ninth, Sarah Schleper tied for 14th, Julia Mancuso 16th, Lauren Ross 24th, Resi Stiegler 27th. USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Rahlves sits atop ski world
Sarah was just about to mount onto one when Fin without so much as a by-your-leave hoisted her up into the saddle and the tied her horse to his.
This brilliant wheel, justly called a splendor, is attached to a conical cap on the head of the dancer, held by a ribbon or kerchief tied under the chin. Did You Know? Quetzal Dancers in Puebla, Mexico
So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The idea was like a bucket of cold water emptied over her head.
The metaphor my old physics professor liked was that matter is energy tied into knots.
But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
His hair was white and powdered and long enough to be tied in a small black silk bow.
She untied the rope and set the boat adrift.
These aren't tied to a clear religious structure - they are more like hoodoo, perhaps?
When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
Surrendering warriors have been greeted with open arms; some are amnestied, while others, especially foreign ones, are imprisoned.
Fortunately there was a fishing craft with an outboard engine tied to another palm nearby.
Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire. Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal.
Today her blonde hair is plaited into French braids elaborately tied with huge dark blue and white ribbons, and she's wearing a short, dark blue denim skirt with her tan Uggs.
It will see standard grey household waste bins being emptied fortnightly instead of weekly, while new green wheeled bins for garden waste are collected on alternate weeks from 60,000 homes in the city.
Stayed with a friend in Keelung and "partied" there in a music bar on Wednesday night in what must surely be the deadest large city on the whole island: on Wednesday night the bars were mostly closed. Traveling....
In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
She comes flying down in her bathrobe and untied sneakers; he's still buttoning his shirt.
Where once the harbour might have had a currach or two tied up, the inlet is now festooned with yachts and dinghies and motor boats and punts of all shapes and sizes.
The boxer tied into his opponent.
It has oval leaves and reddish-orange berries on long branches that have until recently been rigidly tied in against the wall.
Su, who was a model for Christian Dior when she met her husband, actually tied with another woman in the regional final but won the countback on the last nine holes.
Most of the selection I saw was of the backless sort which tied like a halter top around the neck.
The Luxembourg and Belgian francs are tied to one another in a monetary union in 1921.
She declined to answer questions and covered up in a blue trouser suit tied around the waist. The Sun
He tied his neckcloth, combed his fingers through his hair, and pulled on his Hessian boots. The Year of Living Scandalously
During a visit to the Gendarmerie Headquarters, a man whose face was maculated with blood, both hands tied in the back, was seen being marched across the base escorted by two Gendarmes. Cambodia: UN Memorandum re Executions
I prefer a size 10 in long shank and have tied smaller versions on conventional shanked size 10.
Strict rules at secondary schools meant that girls had to keep their hair short or wear it tied back in ribbons of the regulation colour.
I want to know whether he tied the shoelaces of both shoes together.
There were three parcels, one large and "shoppy," two small and bound with family paper, tied by family hands with family string. Jeremy
We tied his feet together with rope.
I dont want an email tied to it, or my name tied to it, but since I go to this school, I have no choice Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Tied for the lead overnight with Watney, Na was briefly caught at the top by his playing partner with four holes to play before he tightened his grip on the title with birdies at 15, 16, and 17. Reuters: Press Release
Schythes were swung, sheaves were tied and built into stooks in an overflowing gesture of co-operation and goodwill.
Just like La Lohan, overexposure dirtied wallpaper's effect. Shine On, Glossy Walls
There was also a sink, some graffitied lockers, and a small table.
Ideas about interlinguas are intimately tied up with ideas about the representation of meaning.
If they are not tongue-tied, they are either inarticulate or brash.
In a recent incident, a particularly virulent South American strain of the bacteria vibrio parahaemoliticus, a relative of cholera, was tied to more than 400 cases of serious human illness across 13 states.
The girl rubbed her face on his immaculately tied cravat.
I also think it's tied up with people looking after themselves, wanting to socialise without always having to include alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
The little girl tied the ribbon in a bow.
Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not.
His hands were completely tied on this one, and those who now criticise him for doing what he was legally obliged to do are being unfair in the extreme to him.
It nearly doubled to $26.1 billion its forecast for losses on a troubled $118.7 billion mortgage portfolio tied to its disastrous purchase in 2006 of California lender Golden West Financial Corp.
Had to set parameters when I found him growling, tied to the table leg with a skipping rope round his neck. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
So they created stage shows filled with magic tricks and mayhem, tied them to films about werewolves and zombies and took them out on tour, playing local theaters and auditoriums, promising a thousand and one frights.
Using three works - two entitied Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River and Mending the Net - they found underdrawings in graphite directly related to existing photographs.
The men tend to wear a sarong-like garment, the lungi, which is tied around the waist.
Seattle finished a laughable 7-9 and tied with St. Louis, but won the title thanks to a better division record than St. Louis, 4-2 vs. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
He then tied electrical cable around the trunk and his neck before hanging himself.
The game was tied at 74-74 when Collison threw up an airball from the baseline with 26 seconds to go. NCAA Division I Mens Basketball - Kansas vs. Missouri
She almost pitied the Seth's clingy girlfriend, except that the busty girl really should have known better than to intentionally provoke her.
They tied her to a chair in the nursery and then ransacked her house looking for cash and valuables. The Sun
Every fish recorded has a date and a time range, so they can be tied together with the solunar information. ESPN.com
We tied the boat to a pier.
Giggling with delight, he fished through the styrofoam peanuts and retrieved a length of silk, folded about three inches wide and almost two feet long, then tied with a ribbon.
From the pouch tied to his jerkin, he pulled forth a small gem.
Katie tied her hair back with a ribbon.
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. Thomas Jefferson
Tract Rosh Hashana discusses the Jewish New Year, a floating holiday tied to lunar observations.
The police emptied her bag and examined the contents.
She spent all her hours in a deep slumber, her hands tied to the bed so that she could not disturb the tubes that connected her wasted body to life.
Speculation was rife that a ship at sea had emptied its tanks and released a noxious gas that was carried ashore on southerly winds. Times, Sunday Times
I tied the bundle onto the end of the string.
The bag is then emptied as often as necessary.
Production and consumption are inextricably tied together.
This has tied in well with the rationalisation of the booking process.
Older women often wear a large kerchief or scarf over the head and tied under the chin.
I crouched down without making a sound and started slithering like a snake through the bushy tomato plants that Mr. Russo had tied up on stakes.
My hair was piled high in curls and a narrow ribbon was tied round my long and slender neck. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
She had long hair, which was tied back in a ponytail and she had facial piercings or facial jewellery.
Her blonde hair was pulled back into a smooth chignon and tied with a yellow silk bow.
This is a rather different issue, and is tied up with the Board's wish not to commit itself to an increase in its total spend until it completed its comprehensive review.
Rush needs to untie the other half of his brain, the part that does not have his ego tied to it. Think Progress » Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?
In the past, the Malays were tied to their agrarian communities, and the British brought in Chinese and Indians to partake in different spheres of economic activities.
He was tied to a telegraph pole in a field on the outskirts of Cork City where he was repeatedly beaten by a gang of up to five men.
We drank and partied with my parents, the other new lecturers, the German lector, Klaus, the French lecteur, Patrice, Russell a student and poet with long, thin hair, Vicky, a German student, and Andy who ran the hall of residence.
But Mezrich's book has the ring of truth about it, not least because it stops short of incredible claims and leaves some loose ends untied.
It felt quite awkward and when I was standing over the first tee shot I realised I hadn't even tied the laces on my sneakers, which are a half size too big as well.
a bountied animal pelt
By the time Michael O'Loughlin first tied up his bootlaces at the SCG back in 1994, the landscape of Australian rules football for indigenous players had already began changing.
Pablo straightened his tied bow tie—no clip-ons for him—and cleared his throat. Georgia’s Kitchen
Once again the police are fighting their battle against crime with one arm tied behind their backs; and once again it is the Government and its cronies of do-gooders who are doing the tying.
Muni analysts had said the U.S. rating downgrade will most directly affect municipal credits tied closely to U.S. government debt securities, such as pre-refunded bonds backed by escrowed Treasury bonds and agency-backed municipal debt. S&P: State, Local Borrowers Can Still Be Rated Triple-A
Michigan's no-fault insurance law provides unlimited lifetime coverage for medical expenses tied to auto wrecks.
He's tied down by having to work every Saturday.
The bodice laced up in the front with cream-colored ribbon, which tied off at the waist.
It took ten men to subdue him and when police arrived they found him still struggling, tied to a chair with electrical cord and asking for Chantal. Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
This may or may not be tied into debate about the genesis of pidgins, with one school of thought claiming there was a single source (monogenesis) and one arguing that pidgins arose separately (polygenesis) (a second battle is over substrate, superstrate, or bio-program, a glossary to figure out the terminology is here) Languagehat.com: ANYONE FOR SALISHAN?
Did not notice knots tied in the tips of the alder branches. THE SHIPPING NEWS
It was made up of white oleanders and pink roses lined with small chrysanthemums tied together with a single satin ribbon.
Until then cops will be fighting crime with one arm tied behind their back. The Sun
As she uncomfortably lowered herself onto the chair on the guest side of his desk, he pulled a sheaf of parchment tied together with twine from a desk drawer.
In triode mode, of course, the screen grids of the KT88 pentode tubes are tied to the plates, and the tubes operate as indirectly heated triodes. Stereophile RSS Feed
When a platoon of American troops in WWII were making their way across Europe, they came across a bombed-out monastery with these words graffitied on its basement wall.
They swapped their heads around and played and partied and danced and jigged and forgot who they were.
Hanging on a branch of the biggest pine are my socks, neatly tied in a bow, waiting to be discovered.
Truly changing our approach toward something so closely tied to self-esteem takes time. Christianity Today
However, the Las Vegas Four Seasons is right there on The Strip, right next to the Luxor, which kind of implicates it as one of those Vegas hotels - lobbies clanging with slot machines and crowded with wandering tourists clad in Reeboks, Dockers shorts, hooded sweatshirts tied around their waists and clear plastic visors embellished with flamingoes. Elvis Didn't Sing at the Wedding - Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas
Items like cordless phones decrease the need to be tied to a fixed location.
But fertility, of course, has always been tied up with deep emotional and moral issues.
He who will carefully examine the flowers of orchids for himself will not deny the existence of the above series of gradationsfrom a mass of pollen-grains merely tied together by threads, with the stigma differing but little from that of an ordinary flower, to a highly complex pollinium, admirably adapted for transportal by insects; nor will he deny that all the gradations in the several species are admirably adapted in relation to the general structure of each flower for its fertilisation by different insects. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
But some people who used the product to access the money tied up in their property face a clawback or a reduction of their social welfare payments.
felt tongue-tied with embarrassment
My money is tied up in a trust fund.
The fish was taken, it's said, from Loch Ken by the gamekeeper on a peacock herl tied on a hook.
Until now people seeking financial advice have had two choices - the tied financial adviser and the ‘independent’ adviser.
On the other hand, maybe he just hadn't emptied it for a week. DEAD BEAT
The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
The candle now fell from his hand, and he attempted to pull off his wig; but it had been tied close on, to appear more natural, and his fright disabled him; he therefore flung himself upon the bed, and rolled the coverlid over his head. Camilla
He took a short length of rope and swiftly tied a slip knot.
Her dad looks up from his bag of chips on the couch for a moment, then averts his eyes immediately back to the television where a basketball game rages at a tied score.
He gripped his rifle and tied it to his back, unhitching his long bowie knife.
He tied silver cords around the legs of a group of phoebes, and spotted two of the banded nestlings when they returned the next year.
From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall.
Did you dream you were ating your own tripe, acushla, that you tied yourself up that wrynecky fix? — Finnegans Wake
His already dirtied clothes were drenched in the sludge.
The tax will affect only the propertied classes.
More Infections Often Tied to Food According to WHO, of more than 1,600 people sickened by this E. coli strain, 499 developed a rare and potentially fatal kidney-failure complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome—a complication that can shut down the kidneys and normally occurs in only a small percentage of people sickened during an E. coli outbreak. Rare Germ Drives Outbreak
The bright canary yellow leafstalks are tied in two to four ‘hands’ for marketing.
I began to tell her stories that involved castrations and how men have all their power and strength tied up in their testicles.
Leslie, the older one, had tied a white canvas sack around his shoulder.
Victims have their elbows and feet tied tightly together behind their backs, often with wire or plastic rope that makes their limbs bleed. Times, Sunday Times
I grabbed the keffiyeh from round my neck and tied it round my thigh as a tourniquet. Times, Sunday Times
We understand that there are limits to the degree to which the wealthy and the propertied can declare independence from the society of which they are part; that they have reciprocal obligations to the society of which they are part.
I can’t compete with that!) and a small trinket picked specifically for that person tied to the elaborate ribbon with even more elaborate ribbon you know what? Purplecigar Diary Entry
The field at these sites is particularly intense, as if the magnetic flux lines have been tied into tight bundles.
A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.

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