How to Use untether in a Sentence

untether

verb

• When my boobs came in, there was no way they could be untethered.
  — Caitlin Brodnick, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2017
• Our city dog bounds in and out of the woods alongside us, untethered by a leash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• Children are prized for their small and nimble fingers, able to untether and mend nets.
  — Lisa Kristine, CNN, 3 July 2021
• Bowie was untethered, shape-shifting, floating through space.
  — Nneka McGuire, chicagotribune.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• One of ayahuasca’s main effects is to untether thoughts from their normal, linear flow.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
• Share your location Sure, part of the fun of a solo road trip is being untethered.
  — Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2018
• Cellular connections can also be used to use apps when the Watch is untethered from an iPhone.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2017
• Health care untethered from or employers would give America’s women a chance to follow their dreams.
  — Sarah Seltzer, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2017
• 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
• But untethered from context and time, Spicer’s past commentary seemed linked to Flynn today.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
• Led by Red, the Tethered are staging an uprising to untether themselves.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• Bruce McCandless was another, the first to fly untethered among the stars.
  — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2017
• 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
• After all, this is technology fulfilling its great promise and untethering workers from rote tasks.
  — Gwen Moran, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2019
• What’s worse, Avila has to eventually untether himself to some very expensive contracts.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Amazon’s brilliance—or necessity, after the Fire Phone flop—was to untether Alexa from a smartphone.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The pandemic prompted companies to become more flexible and allow Americans to untether themselves from their desks and relieve the burden of long commutes.
  — Michael Plummer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Our smartphones untether us from the office, saving us energy on travel, but also allow our lives to be interrupted nearly 24 hours a day, chewing up any productive idle time.
  — Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 4 June 2018
• 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
• This stylish and compact induction cooktop from Cuisinart is the ultimate way to untether yourself from your stove and expand your countertop or any other available workspace in your kitchen into a usable pan-heating area.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 24 Nov. 2020
• Accounts of colonialism, prejudice, and abuse sound watered down and, in some cases, untethered from their perpetrators, so that the state of black America almost feels like an inevitability.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2019