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Example sentences for "tethered"

Lexicographically close words:
tetched; tete; tetes; teth; tether; tethering; tetigit; tetrachloride; tetrachord; tetrad
  1. A horse, or at least the framework of a horse--for the animal is attenuated beyond description--stands tethered under the shade of a rude roof of boughs and whinnies feebly to our sturdy mounts.

  2. Nor had one lived the brightest, sweetest years of one's life tethered and impounded, without feeling the consequences when the tether was cut.

  3. Hadria stood and laughed at the sight of the gigantic Professor, helplessly tethered by his own chain to the imperious baby, in whose fingers the watch was tightly clasped.

  4. Justiniano, however, kept his grey, and tethered him out for the night, so that he could then get it early next morning, when he was to return to the Cerro.

  5. They had got lost, there being no regular road over the plains, and their horse, which they had not tethered properly, had gone large.

  6. He waited a few moments; then, as if with a sudden thought, he ran to a horse tethered near by and vaulted into the saddle.

  7. As instructed, he left his horse, or rather Rodney's, tethered at some distance from the settlement and proceeded on foot to the Miners' Rest.

  8. Caesar took the letter, and bent his steps in the direction of the place where he had tethered his horse.

  9. When Caesar reached the place where he had tethered the horse, he was grievously disappointed at not finding him.

  10. They were all tethered to stones to prevent them from eating the flesh that was spread all over the rocks to dry.

  11. Apparently, these beautiful dogs were left behind still tethered by the wicked Amerindians, after the massacre of their owners.

  12. Therewith she led her out into the sunshine, and tethered her to an ash sapling which grew anigh the door, that the child might be safe the while she went about her work in acre and mead.

  13. Then went Leonard and tethered the horse, and they went together afoot to the gate; and Birdalone told what she had heard of Arthur and Hugh; and Leonard said: This is true, and there is not much else to be said.

  14. The hitching-bar in front of the Unicorn, and every post of fence or garden-paling, was occupied by the tethered horses.

  15. Roger was once more tethered at the gate, and Gilbert was in the room.

  16. The horses that were tethered by the roadside seemed to take it all as a matter of course, and munched away at their hay, as though all the world were at peace.

  17. First, we lay down upon the platform, and then, when we got our bearings, rolled over on to the track among a lot of artillery horses that were tethered there.

  18. Undeceived by this apparent docility, the cowboy, when the time came for him to bunk down under the chuck wagon for a few hours of sleep, tethered his mount quite securely to a deep-driven stake.

  19. Silent-footed, as though shod in velvet, they ran to the tethered camels, stacked the provisions once more upon their backs, lashed the guns across their own shoulders.

  20. So they stopped for a few hours of rest before sunrise, tethered their horses, and were soon fast asleep.

  21. Large bodies of men and many tethered horses were at the foot of the slope.

  22. Here we camped and tethered our horses, for fear they should fall down the steep bank of the river.

  23. We then tethered them and folded our sheep, one of which we killed for food.

  24. And Graeme led him through the back fields among the tethered cows, who stopped their slow chewing as they passed, and lay gazing after them in blank astonishment, into the Avenue and so to the Bel-Air.

  25. The stamping noise of tethered and impatient horses, too, was heard; and many whisperings, as of a number of men speaking in low tones, sounded around.

  26. The horses, tethered near, fed on some oats which had been brought for their need, and finished their meal upon the forest grass; and thus nearly an hour passed without any sign of an intention to move.

  27. We saw plenty of the fine race of domestic cattle descended from the Bos banteng of Java, driven by half naked boys, or tethered in pasture-grounds.

  28. But when they offered live pigs, they tethered the animals to the hut in which the dead body lay, and they fed them till the flesh dropped from the skeleton; after that they allowed the pigs to die of hunger.

  29. In a wood near the castle he approached a company of Spaniards, four in number, their horses tethered while these men (Oviedans, as they told him) drank about a great stone which served them for a table.

  30. At every tree-bole a tethered horse awaits us; and a ship awaits our party at Fecamp.

  31. He tethered his black horse without and strode softly through the door, and upon his breast and shoulders the snow was white as the bleached bones of those women that died in Merlin's youth.

  32. Now Camoys' tethered horse, rearing with nervousness, tumbled his master's flat-topped helmet into the road.

  33. It was the picket-house, the headquarters of the troop of Cossacks, and a number of them were lying and hanging about, their horses tethered close by.

  34. McKay, who had now put on the greggo and sheepskin cap, did as he was asked, and the two crept forward together, having left the horse tethered to a bush, the guide explaining by signs that they would presently come back to it.

  35. Behind them their horses were tethered to an iron ring in the wall.

  36. The tethered horses were moving restlessly; but, so far as Edgar could make out, the cattle were bunched together.

  37. The one-sided street that faced the track was lined with buggies, wagons, and a few automobiles; horses and two or three yoke of oxen were tethered outside the overfull livery stables.

  38. Our stables were soon filled, and many horses had to be tethered in the paddock.

  39. Before Dick could reply there was a disturbance among the tethered ponies as though something had alarmed them.

  40. It took only a few moments to enumerate the riding and pack animals tethered near the camp and the count was found to total correctly.

  41. Well----" He looked at the untenanted corral and then to the bunch of tethered animals the outfit from Diamond X had brought with them.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tethered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aground; anchored; bound; caught; fast; fastened; fixed; grounded; hampered; held; inextricable; ironbound; jammed; moored; packed; stranded; strapped; stuck; tethered; tied; wedged