TIED in a Sentence

Learn TIED from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For TIED, below is one of 274 sentences:
Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.

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 Meanings and Examples of TIED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tie
 v.  connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
 v.  achieve the same score as another competitor
tying
 n.  the act of tying or binding things together
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  That meant four mornings a week in the sweltering, stinking hospital with her hair tied up in a towel and a hot apron covering her from neck to feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  From it she took a pack of letters tied together with a blue ribbon, addressed in Ashley's hand to Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  She sighed as she carefully tied the ribbon about the packet, wondering for the thousandth time just what it was in Ashley that eluded her understanding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  The ribbons that tied under the chin were as wide as her hand and they, too, were pale green.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  Last week my old boots wore completely out, and I would have come home with sacks tied on my feet if we hadn't had the good luck to shoot two Yankee scouts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  She wrapped the bright lengths about his slender waist, above his belt, and tied the ends in a lover's knot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Grandpa Merriwether rode in on a gun carriage, his bare feet tied in quilt scraps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Anything was better than being tied here waiting for a baby that took such a long time coming.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  She knotted two long towels together and tied them to the foot of the bed and put the knotted end in Melanie's hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  She tied the other end to the back of the wagon, as securely as her awkward fingers would permit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  "Well, he can have it," said the sergeant, who was satisfied enough with the jewelry and trinkets tied up in his handkerchief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  She was alarmed, too, for the cow and the horse and wished they were hidden in the swamp, instead of tied in the woods at the bottom of the pasture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  Let other soldiers limp by in rags with their feet tied up in sacks and strips of carpet, but not Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  "Cheer up," he said, as she tied the bonnet strings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
16  We tied this letter to a brick and threw it over the railing.
17  I'm tied up at the moment.
18  Her hands and feet were tied and a gag placed over her mouth.
19  She wrapped the present and tied it with ribbon.
20  Interest rates are tied to the rate of inflation.
21  We tied balloons and streamers to the ceiling ready for the party.
22  The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.
23  They tied the ship to the quay with ropes.
24  The freighter tied up at a small harbor.
25  The currency was tied to the gold standard.
26  Unlike open ended entitlements, the voucher is tied directly to a tax.
27  Less money tied up in inventory is more money in our pockets.
28  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more.
29  I got up and turned around in my tracks three times; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.
30  Her hair was tied back with a black ribbon.