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Example sentences for "tight place"

  • You and I have been in many a tight place, old chap, and I never knew you to fail either with hand or heart.

  • I have never been in a tight place personally, but if I were I suppose you would come along and show me the way out.

  • I happened to know the pilot, and told him that I was in a tight place, and by his assistance I secreted myself on board the boat and went to Cairo.

  • And there are some that are treacherous and the minute they get you in a tight place, they will lay down cold.

  • You told me if I ever got into a tight place, you'd see me through," he began.

  • They've stood by me before in many a tight place.

  • You have got them into a tight place," said Win Milton, who was watching the young officer with the most intense interest.

  • I suppose you caused Ceph to stand up on end when you found yourself in a tight place?

  • As you say, we have the ruffians in a tight place, and I want to give them a chance to think over the situation, and take it in," added Deck.

  • I daresay the writer stated that I once, in order to get myself out of a tight place in India, wantonly sacrificed the woman who was my companion?

  • Once, in India, I found myself in a tight place, with a woman, a girl, who was almost a perfect stranger to me.

  • Well, it's that chap Anstice--you remember, the fellow who shot that girl up in the hills when they were in a tight place.

  • But you were good to me and saved my life when I was in a tight place, and I am glad to think that no loss ever came to you or your friends through me.

  • This is a tight place I find myself in now.

  • I'd never leave so good a comrade as Grigosie in a tight place," murmured Stefan.

  • Had he not full reason to know what a splendid comrade she was in a tight place?

  • If that is their spirit I'd sooner have lads like yonder beside me in a tight place," Ellerey answered angrily.

  • He was a man who always kept large sums in hand in case of finding himself in a tight place.

  • Purvis is in a tight place,' said Dunbar dryly.

  • He was in a tight place there, and must have known it,' said Peter.

  • He has disappeared more than once before, and he has even died, to my certain knowledge, two or three times, in order to get out of a tight place.

  • What I felt from the first moment that he broached the subject was that he and his Party are somehow in a tight place in regard to the Nuttingford division.

  • There seems to be no end to the ingenuity of the Cossack when he is in a tight place.

  • As the sun rose higher and higher in the sky the heat became more and more intense, and the men felt the strain very much; but they plodded on with that stubbornness which they always display when they are in a tight place.

  • Explain to the men we are in rather a tight place, and that in spite of fatigue every one must buck up.

  • We've got you in a tight place, an' we're goin' ter keep you there.

  • And the old man would likely fork over handsome if I was to get his son out of a tight place?

  • The detected thief was in a tight place, but he was not prepared to give up.

  • Why, we may be in a tight place to-morrow, and who's going to back me then?

  • If you want horses to pull a weight out of a tight place, put weight on their backs.

  • This is dam'-tight place, but I think it is self-defence.

  • First, "Son of the Charm", if you are in a tight place.

  • If he had asked Fenn to help him in a tight place then, he knew he could have relied on him.

  • It's no good chucking the game up simply because we're in a tight place," he said, bringing the spoon to the surface at last with the section of strawberry adhering to the end of it.

  • Unless his mission in quest of the cap should prove successful, he was in a tight place.

  • He said we were in a tight place, but that he would take us past the guerrillas and start us on beyond.

  • After a reasonable time in the morning, we said: "Hastings, we are in a tight place.

  • He is either in a tight place or else Is up to some fearful deviltry.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tight place" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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