Example sentences for: tether

How can you use “tether” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its adherents tether their interpretations to plain meanings as they were understood when the text was first penned.

  • At this moment, the word is most commonly used for the elastic tether by which daredevils attach themselves to a bridge or building before leaping off into space, a sport that was graphically depicted in the opening scene of the movie, To Live and Die in L.A.

  • A variation on this theme is that it might never be possible to construct a phosphosite mutant of Net1 that binds Cdc14 but fails to release it during anaphase, if the hydroxyl groups that are phosphorylated normally form critical hydrogen bonds that tether Cdc14 to Net1.

  • Just as Kwanzaa, created in 1966, has returned many black Americans to their African heritage, so Hanukkah has helped tether Jews to their heritage and in some cases has brought them back to the fold.

  • The robust barrio weathered attempts to tame and tether it as part of the 1992 waterfront sterilization scheme, but it has mostly survived.


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