TIE in a Sentence

Learn TIE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
274 example sentences for TIE, such as:
1. We require a jacket and tie.
2. I used tape to tie up the box.
3. He loosened tie and lay in bed.
4. He concealed the key inside his tie.
5. I tie back my hair when I'm cooking.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TIE
tie
 n.  neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
 n.  a social or business relationship
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yas'm, dat hawse daid, lyin dar whar Ah tie him wid his nose in de water bucket he tuhned over.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  She did not realize then that with one stroke she had cut forever any fragile tie that still bound her to the old days, to old friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  There was the faintest gleam of triumph in Rhett's eyes as he bent to tie Bonnie's shoe string.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
4  She uttered a smiling acceptance, hailing in the renewal of the tie an escape from Trenor's importunities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
5  A man in cuffless shirt-sleeves with pink arm-garters, wearing a linen collar but no tie, yawned his way from Dyer's Drug Store across to the hotel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  She stepped from tie to tie, in long strides.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  He wore a black sack suit and a lilac tie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  She tried to evolve a philosophy which would explain why Kennicott could never tie his scarf so that it would reach the top of the gap in his turn-down collar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  She realized, in the taxicab, that he was wearing a soft gray suit, a soft easy hat, a flippant tie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  We drove up to this skeleton to tie our horses, and then I saw a door and window sunk deep in the drawbank.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
11  When Ole was cultivating his corn that summer, he used to get discouraged in the field, tie up his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
12  We were out all day in the thin sunshine, helping Mrs. Harling and Tony break the ground and plant the garden, dig around the orchard trees, tie up vines and clip the hedges.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
13  When I pulled up at the windmill, another boy, barefooted and curly-headed, ran out of the barn to tie my team for me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  Since the emancipation came and the tie of mutual interest and regard between master and servant was broken, the Negro has drifted away into a state which is neither freedom nor bondage.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
15  But the tie which, through their common calamity, had united the feelings of these simple dwellers in the woods with the strangers who had thus transiently visited them, was not so easily broken.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
Example Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  I tie back my hair when I'm cooking.
2  He loosened tie and lay in bed.
3  I have to wear a jacket and tie to work.
4  We'd agreed from the beginning not to tie each other down.
5  Most of the guests will be wearing black tie.
6  Most evenings there's a party and the dress code is strict - black tie only.
7  I used tape to tie up the box.
8  He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
9  If you want a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
10  He concealed the key inside his tie.
11  I need a piece of string to tie this parcel up.
12  They will tie the generating station in with the power system.
13  We require a jacket and tie.
14  Adjusting your tie is often a sign of nervousness.
15  He showed his contempt for social etiquette by not wearing a tie.