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Example sentences for "tightens"

Lexicographically close words:
tight; tighten; tightened; tightener; tightening; tighter; tightest; tightly; tightness; tights
  1. First, he pays out a large amount of string, then as the kite wobbles to one side with its nose pointing toward the first kite, he tightens his line and commences a steady quick pull.

  2. This process also tightens the shreds of cane and does not injure ordinary furniture.

  3. The knurled cap D tightens the split chuck in order to hold the measuring rod firmly.

  4. Involuntarily she tightens her hand upon the Boodie's.

  5. Portia, to check the sob that rises in her throat, tightens her clasp on Dulce's hand and draws the girl quickly from the room.

  6. Thus the last pull tightens the entire pack, clamps it down, secures it immovably, which is the main recommendation and beautiful feature of the diamond hitch.

  7. The first pull tightens the pack; the second lifts the kyacks.

  8. Food is scattered about leading to it, and is placed abundantly in an inclosure, the entrance to which is through the fatal noose which tightens when the bird perches on the trigger at the opening to the inclosure.

  9. When this is freed the loop, E, at once tightens around the victim, as the cord is drawn taut by the releasing of the spring -- a shrub bent over and secured by the upper end of the cord.

  10. I'd like to take that record back and show it to Billy Renfrow some day; and that tightens my grip whenever I see a fat thing that I could corral just by winking one eye--and losing my graft.

  11. The artist rises, tightens his waist belt to another hole, and lights the stove.

  12. Do you like the feel of hemp, as it tightens around your neck!

  13. He has her hand still in his, and now, half unconsciously, she tightens her fingers over his.

  14. Her hand tightens on his arm; he feels the pressure, and now in the ball-room his arm goes round her.

  15. He finds some sailors, tells them how he was elected to Congress, slaps them on the back, tries to split the bar with his fist, a feat which has often won votes, and tightens his heart with raw Canadian whisky.

  16. For the teacher said--" The canal tightens in the throat.

  17. Lowry changes color, but gives way not an inch; he also tightens his grasp on Cecil's unwilling hand, and throws up his head defiantly.

  18. He tightens his arm about her, and considering, I dare say, she owes him some return for so humble a speech--stoops as though to put his lips to hers.

  19. So he only tightens his clasp upon her hand and smothers a sigh between his lips.

  20. Kiss me good night, dear--" She suddenly tightens her arms around him.

  21. His voice tells nothing, but her hands are in his, and he forgets it and suddenly tightens his fingers.

  22. As it tightens sufficiently she allows it to wrap on to the spindle, and repeats the operation until the spindle is full.

  23. Whether he regains his feet or not the cowboy keeps the rope taut; soon another noose tightens over a leg, and the bear is speedily rendered helpless.

  24. To prevent it from slipping out of the hand when the blow is struck, a stout thong of sealskin is made into the form of a long loop which is passed over the hand and tightens around the wrist.

  25. The performer tightens the snares, and sprinkles a few drops of water on the drumhead lest the blows cause it to split under the strain.

  26. The mouth of the purse now tightens from the ring slipping along the string, and thus strangles the animal or else causes it to drown as it struggles to escape from the tightening cord.

  27. Some are placed so that when the foot is lifted the noose is carried along and tightens on it.

  28. The sinew with which it is sewed swells when wet and tightens the seams.

  29. They are rising to my tongue, and every time I press them back this girdle tightens and tightens until I think it will kill me.

  30. Unconsciously he tightens his arm round her, and, emboldened by the softness of her manner, smooths back from her forehead the few golden hairs that have wandered there without their mistress's will.

  31. Her hand trembles within his, as though meditating flight, and then lies passive as his clasp tightens firmly upon it.

  32. The realisation of that fact tightens the sense of tragedy, as the sudden annihilation of a group of children playing with their flowers seems more pitiful than the death of men.

  33. Among this darkness and these sights the sense of tragedy tightens on the imagination.

  34. In these pass ways nooses of strong cord are suspended in such a way that, as the deer endeavours to force its way through, the slip knot tightens round his neck and holds him fast until dispatched.

  35. The end is applied to the loom of the oar that represents the windlass, and the stretcher is turned round and round it until the rope tightens so much as to make it an efficient handspike.

  36. This he passes over the head of the porpoise, and tightens it at the juncture of the body with the tail; and not till then does he consider his prize secure.

  37. Whereupon the autonomic nervous system tightens up the blood-vessels that regulate the local blood supply, too much blood stays in the head, and lo, it aches!


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tightens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.