Sentence examples for tieback from inspiring English sources
noun
A loop of cloth, cord, etc., which is placed around a curtain to hold it open to one side.
Water streaming through tieback holes before they were sealed gave one indication of how close the water was to the bottom of the gash.
Especially hard has been the placement of tieback tendons — gleaming new anchors similar to the rusty tiebacks that supported the trade center slurry wall bathtub when the towers fell, withstanding the equivalent of an earthquake of 2.3 magnitude.
The satin-ribbon curtain tieback (right), has strands of Swarovski crystal beads and costs about $550.
The 35-inch-long Cabana tieback comes with four tiers of tassels.
Investigators believe a bolt attached to a metal tieback gave way on Monday night, causing the panels to fall and kill Milena Del Valle, 38, a restaurant worker from the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
Last week, as a crew from Berkel & Company Contractors installed a tieback near where the Marriott World Trade Center once stood, they hit a buried piece of steel, 50 feet down into the soil and 29 feet into the bedrock, just one foot short of their goal.
But on occasion – namely a peach lace-fronted off-the-shoulder minidress – it seemed that he had focused solely on the party pages of Tatler and issues of World of Interiors (laden as the latter was with swagged curtains and bowed tiebacks) from that era.
Her little touches were everywhere: curtain tiebacks, friezes pasted onto the wallpaper, bowls of potpourri, carved acorn light pulls, dishes of glass pebbles, thriving houseplants.
To keep the wall from being damaged or moved, excavation of the basement will have to proceed in stages, story by story, Mr. Tamaro said, with such tiebacks being installed along the western and southern sides of the bathtub where the basement floors are no longer providing enough support.
By tomorrow, the last of the tiebacks needed at this basement level should be installed.
To support this wall while the basement was being dug, bundles of long steel rods known as tiebacks were drilled at a downward angle through the wall and anchored in the surrounding bedrock.
