Sentence examples for tethered to it from inspiring English sources

The flowers, bobbing atop stems so slender they are almost invisible, look as if they are floating above the plant, not tethered to it at all.

Tethered to it will be a deployable package that includes a new set of sensors designed to detect organic molecules and characterize life forms.

The two players are blocking around the tree, scrambling away only to return immediately, as if they're tethered to it and have no free agency.

Even when Ikea furniture is beautifully designed, we are not tethered to it, as we are with family heirlooms or things so pricey we can't bear to get rid of them.

No, I am not — not to fix anything on the outside of the spaceship while tethered to it by one not-that-strong cord; not to explore the terrain of the planet we land on, a dusty place that looks like it has no life-forms but surely will have, ones that do not wish me well.

The vast majority of my generation is hooked up to a great big internet advertising machine, designed to keep us tethered to it as much as possible.

(By making the loan, he hopes to keep Nora tethered to him; it's an affair, but of the wrong kind).

When she took over, Wikipedia was still tethered to its co-founder, Jimmy Wales, who started it in 2001.

The most he could do was create a place where his heart — devoid now of any depth or weight — could be tethered, to keep it from wandering aimlessly.

It's one thing to feel tethered to your inbox; it's another for employers to monitor you and claim your body is their asset.

The court is like a giant tethered to a stake: It is able to use its vast powers only in the small orbit allowed by Congress and its own decisions.