tether
Example Sentences
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They have sleeping bags that tether to the wall to keep them from floating around the capsule.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
She said she had been at the end of her tether, feeling dizzy and her headlight had gone out.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Crunch, as a sensation, sometimes works like a gentle tether back to appetite.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026
Online orders are loaded into small takeout-style boxes that are hooked onto a tether attached to a drone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
“Let’s run downstairs and give thanks to Mercer. Then we can come up here again and right away name her; she needs a name. And maybe you can find some rope to tether her.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing tether
The Cay
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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"Hitching a Ride"
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