Leash in a sentence as a noun

Now, have got the guy; have him on a short leash.

The NSA does not need to "keep politicians on a leash".

I trust Mozilla will keep him on a short leash, but it's still troubling.

Maybe they should spend some of those lobbying dollars on putting collar, leash and muzzle on NSA.

In short, I call baloney on the idea that NSA can keep politicians on its leash simply by knowing their secrets.

They noticed a behavioral pattern and used it to protect/leash patients: if anything, it's entirely appropriate for HN.

Leash in a sentence as a verb

If you depend on their online service to always be around and available to you in order to access your data and get things done, they have a tighter leash on you.

So in my opinion, it's better to start off with jobs that you know will be drudgery to prove your worth than it will be to get a neat-sounding task where you'll be kept on a short leash.

The important thing to remember here is that the NSA was once started with noble goals in mind but it has since changed into an attack dog without much of a leash to hold it back.

I see no reason to think that it can't/isn't currently happening.>I call baloney on the idea that NSA can keep politicians on its leash simply by knowing their secrets.

"A meeting should not be a free-form discussion..."Agreed, though if people in your office have grown accustomed to that style of meeting, then you'll need to do a lot of conditioning -- and keep a pretty short leash on things -- until they're used to a more structured agenda.

However, there is also a longer "leash" range, where the carrier can move away from the target, after the interceptors have been launched, and they will keep attacking the target until the carrier goes out of the range, at which point the interceptors will go back to the carrier that spawned it.

Leash definitions

noun

restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

See also: tether lead

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

See also: three trio threesome tierce troika triad trine trinity ternary

noun

a figurative restraint; "asked for a collar on program trading in the stock market"; "kept a tight leash on his emotions"; "he's always gotten a long leash"

See also: collar

verb

fasten with a rope; "rope the bag securely"

See also: rope