But tied aid leads to shoddy work.
She tied an apron around her waist.
He tied the parcel with twine.
The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty.
They tied the matter up at the meeting.
All the traffic was tied up by the snowstorm.
My money is tied up in a trust fund.
The role of dopamine is tied up with both liking and wanting, and it's probably even tied up with something more general called salience.
The girl had her long blonde hair tied back in a neat bun.
Go and pretend to untie the rope with which you had tied the donkey.
a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied double.
Back at the townhouse, Mahone finds and frees the tied-up Sara.
He tied a string on his finger to jog his memory.
This alternative technique has the limitation of having to be tied at the end of a pole.
A Polynesian, especially Samoan, garment consisting of a rectangular piece of printed cotton tied loosely around the waist.
The herder tied the struggling young reindeer to a sled and hitched the sled to his snowmobile.
The crew refused to reveal where the gold was hidden so the pirates tied their arms together, blindfolded them and tied cannon balls to their feet before making them walk the plank.
Some users regard it as a blessing for those too shy or too tongue-tied to speak their love.
Women in the sect wear prairie-style dresses and keep their hair tied up in tight buns that conjure images of frontier times.
Chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome would be a more accurate name that would call attention to the fact that the disease is tied to a disturbed immune system.
A hand-tied bouquet in coordinated wrappings will look so much better than a bunch held together with a rubber band and wrapped in cellophane.
This scorecard, like the one in the tactical engagement, carries a vivid message except this time it is tied more quantitatively to the business objectives.
On the other hand, phony stagecraft, which isn't tied to truth or to an uplifting vision, will nearly always backfire, especially in today's media-savvy world.
It was that pervasive spirit of hope that tied my own family's story to the larger American story, and my own story to those of the voters I sought to represent.
The knowledge of the language, the love of a few kindred as poor as himself, were the only cords that tied him: his country is now that which gives him land, bread, protection, and consequence.
Prices have fallen from around $60 per megawatt-hour last summer to $20-30 this summer. They are strongly tied to the prices of natural gas and coal, which have both fallen too.
Finally they tied ropes to the shark's tail fin and behind its pectoral fin, and attached these ties to the rescue vessel, which towed the shark out through the harbour estuary.
Remarkably, he actually appeared to have beaten Mr Begich after the first count, and having tied his conviction up in the appeals courts, looked set to return to the Senate as a convicted felon.
Let other soldiers limp by in rags with their feet tied up in sacks and strips of carpet, but not Ashley. He should come home on a prancing horse, dressed in fine clothes and shining boots, a plume in his hat.
