Sentence examples for tied shut from inspiring English sources
When their ears were plugged or their mouths tied shut, the bats blundered helplessly into the wires.
She forced open the front door to the aging mobile home, which had been tied shut as usual, and found the youngest child hanging but alive.
Beginning on Thursday, the units were inspected, supplied with toilet paper (14,000 rolls total) and tied shut, to be reopened before dawn on Sunday.
The Iranians who tied shut their mouths, for example, may hail from a stable country – but we don't know whether they themselves have justified reasons to flee persecution from their authoritarian government.
In the nineteen-nineties, two paleoanthropologists at Indiana University, Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick, ran a series of experiments in which they trained bonobos, a subspecies of chimpanzee, to make stone tools that they could use to cut open a fruit-filled box that was tied shut with rope.
Photograph: Allen Ginsberg/Corbis In the Fifties, with coastal forests and mountains and Pacific Ocean and Big Sur within driving distance, many San Francisco artists and thinkers climbed into old cars, sometimes with the broken door tied shut with a rope, and took a drive to see what was out there.
Inflate about 5 balloons taped together, or stuff and tie shut a large garbage bag, and wrap it evenly in the fanned cobweb.
These they scooped up with both hands and placed into plastic carrier-bags which they then tied tightly shut.
The boy flicked his wrist and twisted the net through hundreds of small dark fish, then emptied his catch into a clear plastic bag and tied it shut.
In other games over the weekend among men's ranked teams, defending champion Connecticut (8-3-3) lost to Georgetown; Seton Hall and Syracuse tied; Notre Dame shut out Boston College; South Carolina and Rutgers tied; Oregon State beat U.C.L.A.; Stanford edged Santa Clara; and Penn State beat Michigan State.
