8 sentences with 'tied'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tied and other words derived from it.
• « The Breath was tied up with her stern to the river, and as I saw the water rushing under the hull, I became alarmed. The speed of the ebb was three times the normal rate. »
• « Schatz tied up his mustache to show that he had trimmed it and no longer wore it as in the photo. »
• « Peasants in Egypt were tied to the land on which they lived and were therefore serfs rather than free peasants. »
• « While other ancient peoples certainly identified with their places of origin, they were tied to lineages of kings rather than the abstract idea of a community in most cases. »
• « The one factor common to all Greek colonies was that they were rarely far from the sea. They were so closely tied to the idea of a shared Greek civilisation and the need to rely on the sea for trade routes was so strong that the colonists were not generally interested in trying to move inland. »
• « In the original Germanic system, each person was tied to his or her clan above all else, and an attack on an individual immediately became a problem for the whole clan. »
• « The French king, Charles VIII, decided to take control of Milan, citing a dubious claim tied up in the web of dynastic marriage, and a Milanese pretender invited to France to help him take control of the despotism in 1494. »