It was necessary to pump a little now and then, as the very tightest boat will let in a little bilge water, especially when she is as heavily loaded as this one was.
They loaded the boat under Perry Raymond's supervision, for even the tightest and stiffest boat can be made to leak like a sieve if badly loaded.
Those of us who are wound the tightest go the farthest and strike the hardest.
Her dark, smoothly brushed hair was done up in the tightest of balls behind her head, and her brown eyes were easily kindled to suspicion, fear, or anger.
You are in a corner--in the tightest place you've ever been in in all your life.
The gib is adjusted by these screws to fit to the least worn and therefore, the tightest part of the cross bar slideway, and the saddle is more loosely held at other parts of the cross bar in proportion as its slideway is worn.
Neither am I, Flix; but I think this is about the tightest place we have been in since we came across the Atlantic.
We have just got out of thetightest place in which we have ever been placed, and our experience hitherto has been boy's play compared with this day's work.
He wuz dumbfoundered to think he had been outdone in his most vital parts, his most tightest ways.
The Tennessee is one of the tightest and strongest boats that navigate our coast; the very flooring of her deck is composed of timbers instead of planks, and helps to keep her massive frame more compactly and solidly together.
Use free up‐and‐down movement of finger to lift chain and depress it to determine tightest position.
Obtain tightestchain position by rotating chain to position of least slack.
It was as if a compress had reduced him from great height down to histightest compactness, concentrating the strength of him.
The Baron screwed up into the tightest of grimaces.
Beyond the realization that I was in the tightest corner of my life, I seemed to have lost the power of thought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tightest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
