How To Use tying up In A Sentence
- Goya shows them sitting on rocks under a bare tree, cutting plugs of contraband tobacco, with a coil of rope on the ground, handy for tying up victims.
- Sustainability isn't about tying up boats forever, it's about managing our fish stocks so that maybe one day we will be able to throw out our nets and they will be bursting full.
- At the foot of the hill he passed by the green and white Rectory, and there was the parson, a short fat, pursy man with wrists protruding from his jacket sleeves as he stood on tip-toe tying up a rambling rose-shoot on his trim cedared lawn. The Return
- -3* Leonard pottered round the greenhouse, tying up canes for the tomatoes and preparing the sweet pea seedlings for potting out. GRACE
- She said the two men broke into the house, blindfolded and gagged her before tying up her arms and legs.
- One problem is that the system is geared toward preserving existing businesses while tying up new competitors with bureaucracy.
- As they were tying up the coracle, a handful of militiamen surrounded them. A TIME OF WAR
- His discursive sentences begin, then wander playfully, searching under a rock for an insight or chasing a firefly to some understanding, before finally tying up, always neatly, his original point.
- One with a shirt of coarsest dowlas, and a filthy rag tying up a broken head, yet wore velvet breeches, and wiped the sweat from his face with a wrought handkerchief; the other topped a suit of shreds and patches with a fine bushy ruff, and swung from one ragged shoulder a cloak of grogram lined with taffeta. To Have and to Hold
- Precast quay panels are nearing completion and the new bollards for tying up ships and fenders are visible from the waterfront.