tied up

Idioms and Phrases

see tie up .

Example Sentences

Mr Radelic's call to emergency services was played, in which he can be heard telling the operator the tied-up children were uninjured, but "scared and crying".

From BBC

A primary school teacher has admitted murdering her partner whose tied-up body was found buried in their garden.

From BBC

A primary school teacher has admitted killing her partner whose tied-up body was found buried in the garden.

From BBC

Though she makes a point of careful plotting and neatly tied-up threads, Harper’s books are as much about Australian society and the pressures and dangers of the country’s landscape as they are about finding missing people and solving murders.

From Washington Post

“When I think of myself and what I would have like to have found in books those many years ago,” she said at the time, “I remember being depressed by all the neatly tied-up, happy-ending stories, the abundance of winners, the themes of winning, solving, finding, when around me it didn’t seem that easy. I write with a different feeling when I write for young adults. I guess I write for myself at that age.”

From Washington Post

Related Words

• closed
• concluded
• decided
• ended
• full
• realized
• resolved
• satisfied
• settled
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