How to Use tie up in a Sentence

tie up

verb

• The star player struck the ball into the goal to tie up the game.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• In a lot of those, the cases sort of tie up in one episode, right?
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2023
• The truth is the suffering is all tied up – yours and theirs.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• The second man ripped the phone from the wall and used the cord to tie up O’Grady and Rogers, and the intruders fled.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• They had been tied up, stacked on top of each other and each shot in the head.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
• But back in the Dreaming, the Sandman still has some loose ends to tie up.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• Monroe battled back in the third and fourth set to tie up the game.
  — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2022
• She was tied up and abandoned, but she was found and brought to us.
  — Teryn Jones, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• You’re tied up to a bathroom sink and spot a bottle of pills.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Then on moving day, tie up the fronds and dig a large root ball.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• Many of the storylines in the series stand alone and are tied up by the time the credits roll at the end of each episode.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• All of which is to say, there are a lot of threads waiting to be tied up next season.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 30 July 2023
• Everyone was lined up in front of me in that end scene where they’re all tied up.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• The woman was found tied up in the basement and the suspect was arrested.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2023
• But the Sox still didn’t want to tie up a 40-man roster spot on a pitcher who had been idle for three years.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• And that doesn’t seem to tie up with the man who used to do karaoke with his daughter every single year.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• DePape then threatened to tie up Paul Pelosi about 10 times.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2022
• The men removed a cord from a speaker in a bedroom to use to tie up the woman, the complaint says.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 29 June 2022
• Four of the victims were tied up in the living room as the suspects demanded to know where the valuables were kept.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2023
• But that cuts both ways, and Ukraine has said its fierce defense of the eastern strongholds has helped tie up Russian forces.
  — Andrew Meldrum, ajc, 13 Jan. 2023
• But that cuts both ways, as Ukraine says its fierce defense of the eastern strongholds has helped tie up Russian forces.
  — Time, 14 Jan. 2023
• The writers tie up almost everything in a pretty bow when the wish list is filled by the end of Act 1 — then rip the bow to shreds in Act 2.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
• The intruder tied up Polly's friends and took her at knifepoint.
  — Courtney Testa, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• Five men were found tied up near a pickup truck on Thursday morning.
  — Anne Laurent, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Their earnings would be tied up for weeks while bills, rent, and expenses pile up.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 29 July 2023
• As of Episode 2, Bruce appears to make good on his comment, most likely headed to Sakaar to tie up any loose ends.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 25 Aug. 2022
• With Jake Moody on the field looking to tie up the game, two Purdue linemen jumped offsides which made it fourth-and-1.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2022
• All That actress wrapped the skirt’s red velvet tie up her waist, for a fun and flirty Y2K-esque effect.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 26 Jan. 2023
• The report said there is as much as $21 billion of unspent money tied up in unused and lost gift cards.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• To these pigtails, simply section hair into two parts and tie up each section just above the ears.
  — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024