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.
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  • 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.
  • 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
  • Since he was in high school, he said, he had fanaticized about tying up women and torturing them. Erin Moriarty: Long Island Serial Killer: Which Other Serial Killers Does He Resemble?
  • I felt badly about tying up the room for half an hour, but the volunteer staff said not to worry.
  • A hyperlink is always a good way of tying up related documents, irrespective of the type.
  • As she was tying up the last bag, she lifted her eyes and glanced round the rooms which had made up her domain. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • I baited up another spot on the other side of the swim before retying up the second rod with a new rig.
  • Longshoremen began the job of tying up the ship and once the harbormaster had finished with the various paperwork, the long, tedious job of off-loading the cargo began.
  • You should lock into a fixed rate for the best deal - but experts advise against tying up your money for more than a year.
  • Fuck the squeegee men, dirtying up the clean windshield of my car, Get a fucking job!
  • It's tying up the smaller companies by encumbering their balance sheets so they haven't got the capital to invest in the North Sea, and it's stopping deals being done," says Malcolm Webb , chief executive of Oil and Gas UK. Rig-Retiring Worries Linger for Oil Firms
  • Tying up an opponent is usually good, but it also ties up one of yours which can lose a valuable scoring opportunity.
  • The sad part is, she has succeeded in dirtying up Obama to make herself look better little does she know that she just handed McCain the presidency in the process. Poll shows Clinton has better shot of beating McCain
  • Can't be worse, really, but 'puttying up' is down by the heels, and there hasn't been an old master from Flushing, Felix O'Day
  • Fuck the squeegee men, fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis, dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job !
  • I've tweaked a muscle in my back tying up my shoes.
  • By grouping the long - term campers administrator keeps them from tying up the short - term camping facilities.
  • Were the amateurs doing science, or just prettying up the pictures?
  • England's really slick play this autumn has been based on tying up defenders with decoy runners and then getting outside the opposition with some crisp passing. Times, Sunday Times
  • As they were tying up the coracle, a handful of militiamen surrounded them. A TIME OF WAR
  • Whilst I were a squatting, tying up my bundle, I heered all of a suddent -- somebody runnin ', brip -- brap --! and up kern a man from round the corner of the stationhouse, a runnin' full tilt; and he would a run over me, but I grabbed my bundle and riz up. At the Mercy of Tiberius
  • I saw several wrestlers in the corner already dressed in gym clothes, tying up the laces on their shoes.
  • Garza's seen horses with azoturia, aka Monday Morning Sickness or ‘tying up.’
  • June 4, 2009 at 1:04 pm we had javelinas wunse, wich iz being large wild pig-like fings taht lib in teh dezzert. tehy nokked ober owr garbij kans an was rooting throo teh leftedober suppers an stuffs, happy az yoo pleez. tehy wuz very stinky. after taht we started tying up teh bags tighter. Well..how else was - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Or tying up in the harbour at Monaco for a champagne knees-up with the yachting set? Times, Sunday Times
  • England's really slick play this autumn has been based on tying up defenders with decoy runners and then getting outside the opposition with some crisp passing. Times, Sunday Times
  • I also read on this site about making the items look older than they are - removing items out of their original boxes, wrapping things in old wrappings and newspaper, and we're planning on dirtying up our brand new fans. What can we bring across the border
  • 'Never mind about puttying up such little cracks as them!' he shouted. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • 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.
  • This storm being so terrific and tying up all things, robbed him of the need.
  • We're tying up billions of dollars in an unwinnable, perpetual war on an enemy that we can't even locate.
  • The locals came forward to remove encroachments, which included tying up of pigs and milch animals.
  • It may provide a time of deepening relationships and tying up the loose ends of a lifetime. Christianity Today
  • Jonny has just returned from a trip to Florida, successfully tying up the loose ends on the purchase of his latest acquisition.

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