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Example sentences for "tie"

Lexicographically close words:
tidinges; tidings; tidor; tidy; tidying; tied; tief; tiefe; tiefen; tiefer
  1. The parental tie so lately discovered, and which had opened to Luciè a new spring of tenderness, became a source of painful anxiety.

  2. I surely do not merit, and which is a most ungrateful theme, when uttered against one whom I am bound, by every tie of duty and interest, to respect!

  3. But as their flowery garland was wreathed of the brightest roses that had grown there, so, in the tie that united them, were intertwined all the purest and best of their early joys.

  4. Is not the kindred of a common fate a closer tie than that of birth?

  5. The youngest of the elders, a man of about fifty, had been bred from infancy in a Shaker village, and was said never to have clasped a woman's hand in his own, and to have no conception of a closer tie than the cold fraternal one of the sect.

  6. Then a man in black with a white tie came along and heard the story.

  7. It was for the starboarder, a young Roumanian, who wore a purple tie held together by a large amethyst ring.

  8. Art and literature have their part in good understanding between nations: but the foundation and the binding tie are furnished by commerce and banking.

  9. Most assuredly she would have gone to find these things, led by the instincts of a healthful nature, had not one slender tie held her till it grew into a bond so strong she could not break it.

  10. David's tie was so plain no one observed it: Mr. Fletcher's, elegant and faultless enough for a modern Beau Brummel.

  11. And mother, though the tender tie Uniting us, has thus been riven, May we not feel a stronger bond Drawing our trusting hearts to heaven?

  12. That ye may tie to," acceded Mr. Meredith, though with a dubious manner, as if something perplexed him.

  13. If God does n't kindly freeze the devil's brood, they'll tie us into our lines just as they did last winter, and give us an ounce of lead for every pound of forage we seek.

  14. Some of you tie the prisoners, except him, two and two, and start them down the road at double quick," ordered Captain Bagby.

  15. He'll be glad enough once done; that I'll tie to.

  16. T is not as strong as British bayonets, that ye may tie to, fellow.

  17. Stuff a sod of grass in his mouth to keep him quiet," ordered Charles, panting, "and tie him hand and foot.

  18. The death of his wife had severed another tie with Portugal; and taking with him his boy Diego, Columbus left, to go we scarcely know whither, so obscure is the record of his life for the next year.

  19. But when the story of darkness began to be unrolled a great fear seized his cowardly heart.

  20. Then in his quaint way he told the story of his trip from Siwash Creek, the cry in the night, the attack of the dog, escape of the villain, and the finding Constance lying unconscious on the trail.

  21. Pete Martin's only game was chess, and he loved it dearly.

  22. In his joy and ecstacy he reached out his hand to touch her, but in an instant she vanished from his sight.

  23. The tie that had united her to him had not been sacred, though it had been no less binding; more so, in fact.

  24. And, by a wise provision in the Constitution of our glorious American Union, no one state could tie the nuptial knot so tight that another state could not cut it at a blow.

  25. Up rides a man named Jarrott, flings himself from his horse, passes the time of day as he watches the grinding, helps Tom to tie up a sack or two, and hands him a paper.

  26. The tie between them might perhaps have been described as intellectual, for Elsie Shorter professed only to like people who were "worth while.

  27. He excited her, she was divided between attraction and fear of him, and often she resented his easy assumption that a tie existed between them--the more so because this seemed to be taken for granted among certain of his associates.

  28. By no means the least, however, of the treasures flung into his lap was the tie which now bound him to the Philip Goodriches, which otherwise would never have been possible.

  29. From childhood she had always admired Asa Waring, and now she felt a closer tie .

  30. But the exact stage of disillusionment she had reached in regard to Eldon Parr was unknown to him, and he feared that a further revelation might possibly sever the already precarious tie between father and daughter.

  31. But the Gladstone collar and a tie gave the touch of individuality to his dress which was needed to set him aside as a marked man.

  32. If by acquiescing in his company she had owned to a tie between them, the lace shawl falling over the tails of her dark hair and framing in its folds her face, had somehow made her once more a stranger.

  33. He was not very tall, he had a closely trimmed light beard that was growing a little gray, he wore a soft hat something like Ephraim's, a black tie on a white pleated shirt, and his eyeglasses were pinned to his vest.

  34. He appeared, a portly gentleman with frock coat and lawn tie who resembled the man in the moon.

  35. When Christianity appeared, then, the marriage tie was held in slight consideration, and it was only after many centuries and by slow degrees that its sanctity was recognized, and its rights respected.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tied down; tierra caliente; tiers etat