Example sentences for: ties

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

  • You see it when opponents of cross-ethnic adoption argue--as in a New York Times op-ed piece a few months ago--that we must respect "the strength of the biological and cultural ties that Indian tribes can offer their own children."

  • This comes at a time, the paper notes, when the Clinton administration has been outspoken about the need to bolster cultural ties between the two countries.

  • In fact, if you add the coded "morals and ethics" vote to the Clinton-Lewinsky category, it virtually ties for first place among concerns.

  • The second assertion is technically true but practically dishonest: Caltech had the "fourth-highest score" last year only because there were two three-way ties and one two-way tie among the eight schools that beat it.

  • Such ties had been "ripening" under the premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu, it said, quoting police and intelligence sources, but were broken after Ehud Barak won the election.


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