Through his mind flashed a picture of himself as he would stand there with the vines drawing tighter and tighter about his throat and his face growing blacker and blacker, his tongue hanging out, his eyes starting from their sockets.
Tighter than ever I was tight I'll be to-night, if you can't behave.
He heard her with his lips pressing tighter and tighter together until they were yellow white and creased with a hundred wicked little horizontal creases.
Since then I have been paying and paying, but the debt, instead of diminishing, increases, and the terrible boa conscriptor winds itself tighter and tighter round my body.
I could have handled the place with ten less men an' got through on a tighter schedule, but it was a fine place to work at an' we all got what was comin' to us.
The grip of the boy's arms only grew tighter and tighter with snake-like force, while a dreadful smile came into the young face and became stamped there, engraved in rigid lines.
Her coils held the metal as in a vice; tighter and tighter she hugged the bell, till the metal became red-hot.
Sized me up for a lawyer, I guess, and shut up tighterthan a clam.
But when he felt the warm watery sand hugging him tighter and tighter and sucking him down, he thought surely he was lost and wished he had not bragged.
And there he swung, dangling to and fro, the coil of the rope getting tighter and tighter around his neck, choking the poor toy.
The net of officialdom was meanwhile being drawn tighter and tighter round him: he had to attend compulsory meaningless ceremonies at the Court.
Okanagan, saying nothing, dropped on hands and knees, and while Alton groaned drew the bands tighter about the shattered cedar-bark.
The rancher nodded, and Alton got a tighter grip on the bridle.
But Cleek had been in tighter corners and more difficult places than this in the course of an adventurous lifetime, and the poise and sureness of the man were amazing.
The creature spat out his vindictiveness in a string of Italian oaths, and Cleek, paying not the slightest attention to him, merely hung on tighter to the ankle and prayed for help.
The woman drew her shawl tighter about her shoulders and settled herself on the bed.
But she raised her hand and drew his arm tighter about her neck, the protecting love very sweet.
The maiden's eyes shone dim; and one hand clutched tighter at the crushed and broken twigs; the other slipped from the quivering throat, pressed now to the paining bosom.
Tighter still he held him, one hand patting him gently on the shoulder as though he were a little child.
For a short time there was a desperate struggle; the folds of the snake became tighter and tighter round the body of the poor animal.
As iron contracts by cold, the hoops will shrink as they cool down; and, therefore, girt the nave with a tighter grasp.
Ralph, clutching him still tighter and eyeing him with a sidelong look, so fixed and eager as sufficiently to denote that he had some hidden purpose in what he was about to say.
At every concussion against the walls of the house, at every crash within the house, Marta pressed her nailstighter into her palms.
The skin on his high cheek-bones was drawn tighter than before, further exaggerating the size of his nose, and the deeper set of his eyes gave their cross a more marked character.
Hout-tout," answered the old Lady, in such a harsh voice that the young woman started, and grasped her babytighter in her arms.
Then I knew that he was going to propose to me on the spot, and kept my eyes shut tighter than ever.
I wrapped my coat tighter over my head; my arms were thus exposed, and I felt the heat on my hands.
The cord that was dragging behind him tightened; it grew tighter still--it stopped his progress!
If we had a rope I 'd bind them tighterthan they ever bound me.
The girdle was being drawn tighter and tighter about the doomed city all whose struggles were henceforth powerless to burst its iron fetters.
Each turn ascends at a slight angle, with one edge of the bandage a littletighter than the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tighter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
