Today's quilting subculture includes artists whose work incorporates materials like newspaper headlines, gum wrappers, ugly ties, dryer lint and Christmas lights.

Though Cunniff saddled the entire team with responsibility for the ugly tie, the onus usually falls on the goalie.

I was thinking of all those ugly ties American universities have.

An ugly tie only hurts the eye of the beholder.

Not another ugly tie!

The Futurists' extravagant masculinity, love of violence and voluble but relatively amorphous politics encouraged ugly ties to Fascism.

When a woman could give her man an ugly tie or pine-scented cologne in return for weird little soaps or a tire iron.

I had never wondered what Willie, with his ugly suits and uglier ties and slicked back hair, did for food.

Apart from an ugly 1-1 tie with the United States, Italy has played with characteristic competence in this tournament.