leash

Example Sentences

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Colonel Parker, Elvis’s manager, kept his cash cow on a leash, tethering him first to middling B-pictures, then to casinos.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Like the metal leash, "we are protected by an unreliable, thin chain of ethics. And if it's cut off, we will be killed by this technology," said Todo.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Luckily the works themselves keep slipping this interpretive leash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

It’s a leash — and everyone holding it just realized they’re on the wrong end.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

I feel like a sideshow attraction being led in on a leash.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell