How to Use untether in a Sentence

untether

verb

• Our city dog bounds in and out of the woods alongside us, untethered by a leash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• When my boobs came in, there was no way they could be untethered.
  — Caitlin Brodnick, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2017
• Children are prized for their small and nimble fingers, able to untether and mend nets.
  — Lisa Kristine, CNN, 3 July 2021
• Share your location Sure, part of the fun of a solo road trip is being untethered.
  — Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2018
• Maybe promising deets on Travis -- and then killing him -- was a way to sucker Nat in and then untether her from one of the few living people who loved her.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
• In the 1950s, Bacon made paintings that still raise the hairs on the back of your neck, of screaming figures, bodies trapped in hellish spaces, isolated and untethered from the world.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• Cellular connections can also be used to use apps when the Watch is untethered from an iPhone.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2017
• One of ayahuasca’s main effects is to untether thoughts from their normal, linear flow.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
• Bruce McCandless was another, the first to fly untethered among the stars.
  — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2017
• In New Hampshire this week, no one can miss the fact that the senators are back in the arena -- untethered from Washington and the impeachment trial -- and fighting like crazy.
  — Rick Klein and, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2020
• Bowie was untethered, shape-shifting, floating through space.
  — Nneka McGuire, chicagotribune.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The wealth management arm, untethered from the poor returns on the investment bank, might be more highly valued than today.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• Led by Red, the Tethered are staging an uprising to untether themselves.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• But untethered from context and time, Spicer’s past commentary seemed linked to Flynn today.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
• In 1971, Richard Nixon untethered the dollar from the gold standard, a decision that might have undermined the dollar’s global supremacy.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2020
• Health care untethered from or employers would give America’s women a chance to follow their dreams.
  — Sarah Seltzer, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2017
• Amazon’s brilliance—or necessity, after the Fire Phone flop—was to untether Alexa from a smartphone.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2016
• In the wake of the charges, a coalition of supervisors, led by Matt Haney, have called for yet another probe to be conducted by an outside firm untethered to city government.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• Tesla sits at the juncture between a tech startup, untethered from the rules of the old economy, and a manufacturer that needs to produce physical goods.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
• Email, texts and smartphones have given employees the ability to untether from landlines and desktop PCs, allowing them work on the road or even take an hour here or there for personal tasks.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Jan. 2017
• Email, texts and smartphones have given employees the ability to untether from landlines and desktop PCs, allowing them work on the road or even take an hour here or there for personal tasks.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Jan. 2017
• Being able to walk around a gym untethered, all while blasting my own personal soundtrack, helps me feel more confident, keeps me focused on the task at hand, and prevents me from spiraling too far into my own head.
  — Gray Chapman, SELF, 8 Sep. 2018
• Viewers now are turning to quality TV that requires less investment — shows that are untethered from a single group of characters, genre or even story.
  — Randee Dawn, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Secure your crossover smash, a song that everyone knows, and springboard to a life of pop stardom untethered from trend-hopping, tacky features and capitalistic thirst.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 7 July 2017
• Some economists think that the dour talk is overblown and that the stock markets are running on emotion untethered from economic reality, a narrative that gained force as markets in New York snapped back from the depths on Tuesday.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• Being untethered from big news and acting as an outlet unto herself means Yellin is now free to present stories in a thoughtful way that takes women and their experiences into account.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
• Now, though, those two worlds are merging, with a tiny, exceedingly simple robot modeled after larval jellyfish that can scoot around untethered like the real thing.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2 July 2019
• The Weekly Standard’s version of conservatism was one that was supposed to be untethered — to candidates or specific matters of policy or even to the brass tacks of politics itself.
  — Jane Coaston, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
• Thanks in large part to the potency of vaccines, infections have continued to untether from serious illnesses; speedy diagnostics and treatments have made a big dent as well.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
• The invasion prompted a flurry of western sanctions against Moscow along with an effort by European nations to untether themselves from Russian fossil fuels.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 5 May 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024