tying
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Through a miracle or two my stupidity in tying myself to the sled does not kill me.
From Literature
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Housing costs don’t affect us much in the home we bought in 1989, but we regularly ask each other if we’re tying down capital that we might better allocate in other ways.
Rather than tying intelligence to a single brain region or function, the Network Neuroscience Theory views it as a property of the brain as a whole.
From Science Daily
I asked, tying the red bandanna Elliot had handed me into a knot so it covered the lower half of my face.
From Literature
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Now Fiddelke must bring it home by tying all those initiatives together into a cohesive playbook.
From Barron's
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