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Examples of tether in a Sentence
Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
The flying bot carries the Wendy’s order in custom packaging that the drone lifts up and lowers via a tether.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
These items are not allowed No drones, rocket, powered balloons, ultralights or model aircraft will be permitted, regardless of whether they are controlled by line of sight, radio frequency or tethers.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
Putting thrusters on the tether wasn’t even the craziest idea.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
There will always be a tether to him no matter what.
—Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
Joel asks the doctor before the big deletion, rightfully anxious about maintaining his tether to reality.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
The one stain on an otherwise comfortable fit was the fact that Vision Pro has a battery pack attached by a tether.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 6 June 2023
John Liu, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Morris portrays Saul, a poltergeist eternally tethered to one person, unlike the ghosts of the Woodstone Bed and Breakfast, who are bound to the property.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2024
But the weed inside me tethered my organs and bound my ship to its anchor.
—Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2024
There was simply something different about running the streets back then, feeling the heat of summer and experiencing the exhilarating first taste of freedom and independence; tethered not to devices, but to the adventure of becoming and discovery.
—Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Luckily, a lost fork is an easy mess to clean up — and the situation can be prevented by tethering it down.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2024
Moreover, the pervasive nature of digital technology means that we’re constantly tethered to our devices, leading to a state of perpetual alertness and hypervigilance.
—Georgia Day, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2024
Bringing the show indoors is better for the audience and cast, some of whom are asked to dive from 60-foot-high platforms or rhythmically perform while tethered overhead.
—David Dickstein, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2024
The movie is in contradiction with itself; the aspiration to a quasi-analytical, nearly forensic analysis of events having wider roots in civic life is divided from the specifics that, precisely, would tether the characters to the world around them.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Noun
Middle English tethir, teder, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse tjōthr tether; akin to Old High German zeotar pole of a wagon
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Tether.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tether. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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