tether

Example Sentences

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They have sleeping bags that tether to the wall to keep them from floating around the capsule.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

She said she had been at the end of her tether, feeling dizzy and her headlight had gone out.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Crunch, as a sensation, sometimes works like a gentle tether back to appetite.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026

Like most popular stablecoins, tether maintains a one-to-one peg to the U.S. dollar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

Attached to my waist was a three-foot-long safety tether with a carabiner, or snap- link, at the distal end.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer