"I--" He had no choice but to tug at the meticulously knotted tie, as his throat was suddenly thick.

He wore a loud print shirt and a loosely knotted tie.

Olin sighed, a little round man in a dark cutaway coat and a neatly knotted tie.

The head of security in the city, a man in a stiff suit and neatly knotted tie, stood watch, making sure that everything was in order.

He wore a white shirt and carefully knotted tie beneath a faded blue denim apron.

The stereotype applies: blond hair, blue eyes, a white shirt with a snugly knotted tie.

The need for more women in elective office was vivid every time the cameras panned that line of knotted ties.

That jacket with a knotted tie made me look like a mentally defective bum.

So in walked Isiah, wearing a sharp navy suit, pinstriped shirt and perfectly knotted tie.

He wore a pleasant smile, a neatly knotted tie.