1 The child clasped the doll tightly.

2 He caught my hand and held it tightly.

3 She held tightly on to the rail.

4 She held the money tightly in her fist.

5 A baby monkey clasps its mother's fur tightly.

6 The girl held her father's hand tightly.

7 She held him tightly to her bosom.

8 She fastened her belt tightly around her waist.

9 He leaned forward, his hands clasped tightly together.

10 She held her little bundle tightly in her arms.

11 His jaw was tightly clenched.

12 Screw the drain cover down tightly.

13 You pack in as tightly as you can.

14 Crimp the edges to seal them tightly.

15 Grace pulled her cardigan tightly about herself.

16 The lid is on tightly.

17 Her dress was tightly belted,[] accentuating the slimness of her waist.

18 He was clasping the vase tightly, terrified of dropping it.

19 Waiters glide between tightly packed tables bearing trays of pasta.

20 Hold the ladder tightly and move up a rung at a time.

21 She hugged him tightly.

22 She clasped her bag tightly as she walked through the crowd.

23 She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.

24 We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.

25 In her anger she compressed her lips so tightly that they went white.

26 My child holds onto my hand tightly while we cross the street.

27 She fastened the safety harness tightly round her waist before starting the descent.

28 You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.

29 My belt is loose; I didn't buckle it up tightly enough.

30 He gave it another screw and the lid was tightly on.

1 The child clasped the doll tightly.

2 She held tightly on to the rail.

3 She held the money tightly in her fist.

4 A baby monkey clasps its mother's fur tightly.

5 The girl held her father's hand tightly.

6 She held him tightly to her bosom.

7 She fastened her belt tightly around her waist.

8 He leaned forward, his hands clasped tightly together.

9 She held her little bundle tightly in her arms.

10 His jaw was tightly clenched.

11 Screw the drain cover down tightly.

12 Crimp the edges to seal them tightly.

13 Her dress was tightly belted, accentuating the slimness of her waist.

14 He was clasping the vase tightly, terrified of dropping it.

15 Waiters glide between tightly packed tables bearing trays of pasta.

16 Hold the ladder tightly and move up a rung at a time.

17 She hugged him tightly.

18 She clasped her bag tightly as she walked through the crowd.

19 He gave it another screw and the lid was tightly on.

20 She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.

21 We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.

22 She fastened the safety harness tightly round her waist before starting the descent.

23 He screwed the caps tightly onto the bottles.

24 The workers tightly packed the goods in the crate.

25 They strung these pearls tightly.

26 He clung tightly to the raft to keep himself afloat.

27 Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy.

31 The crowd pressed together so tightly that we could hardly breathe.

32 He buttoned his collar tightly round his thick neck.

33 He screwed the caps tightly onto the bottles.

34 Pemberton frowned and closed his eyes tightly.

35 She tied the ribbon tightly in a bow/knot.

36 She clutched her baby tightly to her chest.

37 He hangs on tightly, his arms around my neck.

38 She pulled the ribbon tightly and tied a bow.

39 Don't bandage the wound too tightly.

40 He reached for her hand and held it tightly.

41 She felt tightly constrained by her family commitments.

42 She clutched her son tightly to her bosom.

43 The workers tightly packed the goods in the crate.

44 Afro hair is short and tightly curled.

45 She clutched her handbag tightly in one hand.

46 Stretch the fabric tightly over the frame.

47 Screw down the lid fairly tightly.

48 The birds' nests are lined with tightly packed leaves.

49 She held on tightly to his waist.

50 James went to his daughter and hugged her tightly.

51 Emily hugged her teddy bear tightly to her chest.

52 Harold is part of a tightly knit team.

53 She drew her coat tightly around her shoulders.

54 She kept her eyes tightly closed.

55 She grasped him tightly by the wrist.

56 He held on tightly to her arm.

57 The windows were tightly shut .

58 He wound the bandage tightly round his ankle.

59 Did you tie the balloons on tightly?

60 She clasped her arms tightly around him.

61 Steve gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands.

62 He held her tightly in his embrace.

63 The mask fitted tightly over his face.

64 Her lips clamped tightly together.

65 She kept her emotions tightly reined in.

66 She felt his arms close tightly around her.

67 They bound his hands together tightly.

68 She stood with her hands clasped tightly together .

69 Twist the rope tightly round that post over there.

70 His fingers curled tightly round the steering wheel.

70 try its best to gather and create good sentences.

71 He stretched out his arms and embraced me tightly.

72 They strung these pearls tightly.

73 His injured arm was tightly strapped .

74 Expenditure within the company is tightly controlled.

75 He sealed the bag tightly with sticky tape.

76 Screw the lid on tightly.

77 The nurse wrapped a bandage tightly around my ankle.

78 Her mouth was tightly closed.

79 He wrapped his arms tightly around her waist.

80 The tent flaps should be tightly fastened.

81 The flowers were still tightly closed.

82 Marie held the baby tightly in her arms.

83 The girl clasped the doll tightly.

84 She had a gun clenched tightly in her hand.

85 He held my hand very tightly at first but gradually his grip loosened.

86 The woman moved closer to Beth, gripping her arm tightly.

87 It was so cold that he wrapped a scarf tightly around his face.

88 She climbed back into bed and wrapped her arms tightly round her body.

89 Turn the lid clockwise if you want to fasten it tightly.

90 He picked up the sheets of paper, and balled them tightly in his fists.

91 His horse was feeling frisky, and he had to hold the reins tightly.

92 She went to her daughter and hugged her tightly .

93 Swaddling a baby tightly in a blanket can be a good way to stop it crying.

94 She clutched her purse tightly, fearing that someone might snatch it.

95 He clung tightly to the raft to keep himself afloat.

96 Patients can now be compulsorily detained in hospital only under tightly drawn criteria.

97 The chandelier arrived in a big box, tightly packed around in wadding.

98 He coiled the rope up tightly and put it away.

99 I've got a surprise for you! Shut your eyes tightly and hold out your hand.

100 Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy.

100 is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

101 The snow has packed down tightly, making the streets dangerous to walk on.

102 Many animals travel in tightly packed lorries and are deprived of food, water and rest.

103 Live animals are transported across the continent, packed tightly into lorries.

104 I have a good pair of skates, but no matter how tightly I lace them, my ankles wobble.

105 The problems of Israel, Lebanon, and the Gulf were tightly interlocked.

106 She carried the magazine tightly rolled up in her hand.

107 They packed in the bus as tightly as they could.

108 He clutched the child tightly as she again tried to wriggle free.

109 a tight-fitting lid. Before a past participle tightly is used:clusters of tightly packed flowers.

110 The child held the bag as tightly as if it were her most prized possession .

111 The stallion bucked as he fought against the reins holding him tightly in.

112 Her jaws tightly locked.

113 Whenever I travel in the city I make sure I hug my handbag tightly to me.

114 Many commuters are forced to stand, tightly packed in, like sardines.

115 The newspapers were so tightly jammed in the letter-box he could hardly get them out.

116 The baby was clutching his dummy tightly in his grubby fist.

117 Her sallow skin was drawn tightly across the bones of her face.

118 The internal media was tightly controlled by the government during the war.

119 Their fists were clenched so tightly that their nails dug deep into their palms.

120 I was so tightly wedged between two other passengers, I couldn't get off the bus.

121 Seal tightly then leave for four to five days to macerate.

122 The skirt fits tightly over the hips and flares just below the knees.

123 The young mother held her baby tightly in the arms.

124 We are as tightly bound to the people we dislike as to the people we love.

125 She reached for the keys and closed her hand tightly around them.

126 Don't bunch the flowers up so tightly, you'll spoil them.

127 There followed a series of tightly circumscribed visits to military installations.

128 I stroked him slowly, then hugged him tightly.

129 They collapsed into bed, holding on tightly.

130 His hands clasped tightly in front of his chest.

130 try its best to gather and build good sentences.

131 Schellenberg could see where the skin graft stretched tightly.

132 Melton is a thick, very tightly woven woollen cloth.

133 Gary has a tightly trimmed black beard.

134 She gripped his arm tightly with both hands.

135 She found his hand and gripped it tightly.

136 The baby monkey clasped its mother's fur tightly.

137 Hence, their skilfulness is tightly coupled with incompetence.

138 His jaw was clenched tightly, his eyes narrowed.

139 George held on tightly, afraid that he might fall.

140 Her eyes were tightly closed.

141 I held the money tightly in my hand.

142 Keep unused icing wrapped tightly in aluminium or clingfilm.

143 Being strongly territorial they have less need for this when compared with birds breeding in tightly packed colonies.

144 It was fastened tightly on to the right horn, so it dangled down over the cheek and eye.

145 Jody is pacing, arms crossed tightly over her chest, waiting for everyone to settle in.

146 He stared straight ahead, hands clasped tightly in his lap, back straight, head up, shoulders squared.

147 He held her hand tightly and led her across the street.

148 Held so tightly, she had to endure his demanding kiss for what seemed an eternity.

149 If we remove an electron from an anti-bonding orbital, the ion will be more tightly bound than the molecule was.

150 If the agent cuts this type of deal tightly enough, the promoter is forced to think twice about spending money.

151 The sauce may be stored in a tightly sealed container without refrigeration.

152 Tightly wrap or store in covered containers all cooked meat, poultry, and fish and shellfish and refrigerate them promptly.

153 His hands were tightly bound together with what felt like bootlaces.

154 How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?

155 The only variation in attire was how tightly the towel was rolled.

156 It had a short tightly fitted bodice with two tiny beaded shoulder straps.

157 That frantic jig at least had one positive effect: it released him from the fear that had gripped him so tightly.

158 Cool completely then, leaving greaseproof paper in place, renew foil, wrapping tightly.

159 Picking up a hand towel from a nearby chair, she wrapped both of Lizzy's wrists tightly.

160 She was sitting up in bed, her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers.

160 is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

161 The solution is also obvious - please check envelopes are not too tightly packed, if in doubt use a bigger envelope!

162 Pike was talking to a waitress and gripping her wrist very tightly.

163 He gave a six-minute inaugural speech from the South Portico before a tightly packed audience.

164 If they were packed tightly there could be 5 thousand million of them in a cubic centimetre of inflammation.

165 Or grate the rind on to small pieces of freezer film; wrap tightly, then place in a polythene bag.

166 Yet in the traditional workplace, information was tightly controlled and compartmentalized.

167 The financial information on credit reports, such as bank accounts and loans, is tightly regulated.

168 I hope to show that the incompetence that is most difficult to correct is tightly coupled with skilfulness.

169 In the midst of them, a gag tied tightly about her mouth, was a woman.

170 Fong stood in the doorway, his invitation clutched tightly in his hand.

171 Holding her tightly, he could feel her breath coming quicker from her fear.

172 He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion, their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing.

173 Twist the wire round the foot so that it sits tightly, forming a protective coil around the tubular feet.

174 The church's role was tightly circumscribed by the new government.

175 Like Kimpton, Conley believes that the small tightly run hotel is often the better route to profitability.

176 It abandoned incomes policy in the private sector, seeking only to keep pay increases to public employees tightly under control.

177 She instinctively shrunk back against the wall, her hands clasped tightly against her chest.

178 Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.

179 When the timeless and per proteins finally become abundant in the late evening, they become tightly bound to one another.

180 Hold them tightly all the way home to prevent escape.

181 Lucky Jim may survive in the memory as a series of farcical moments, but it is also a tightly plotted novel.

182 Wrap the bar with heavy string, coiling it tightly for safety.

183 These sticks would be twisted round until the bag was tightly pressed and the essential oil oozed out of the petals.

184 Managers can act as if the elements of a decision process or an organization are tightly coupled.

185 For twelve days and nights they kept me tightly bound in their council house.

186 Barging through the gap, he hurled himself on Ethel in a frenzy of tightly curled tail-wagging.

187 She lay rigid for a count of ten, eyes tightly closed, then very slowly opened them again.

188 Try concentrating on squeezing your buttocks as tightly as you can instead.

189 I kept my hands clasped tightly to avoid the habitual gesture of hiding myself from sight.

190 Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright.

190 try its best to collect and make good sentences.

191 The tern is swift, turning tightly among the flock to avoid the pirate.

192 He gripped the wheel tightly and held his face quite close to the windscreen.

193 Henrietta is wearing a matt white helmet, a silk scarf wound tightly round her face and heavy leather gauntlets.

194 If marauding gulls appear, the aunties sound an alarm and the young cluster tightly around them.

195 Not long up, her cambric dressing-gown was held tightly about her throat as the chill seeped through the air.

196 If you do not want to scent everything in your refrigerator, keep any ripe melons in a tightly closed plastic bag.

197 Hood: a well-shaped hood gives maximum head cover when the hood is drawn in tightly.

198 He drew in the horse's reins and waited silently, his eyes momentarily tightly closed.

199 It is equally worth noting if the class is so tightly controlled as to inhibit seriously pupil response.

200 He sat up on the edge of his bed, tightly clenched together his hands, and began repeating his own name.

201 Not tightly enough to restrict the blood flow, but sufficient to make her long to be able to stretch.

202 She had immediately closed her mind to all thought, not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan's hand.

203 When the cake cools, cover tightly with foil and store in a tightly closed tin.

204 An antique Oldsmobile crawled by, its tires crackling on the sand-covered, tightly packed ground of the flat.

205 Live animals are transported across the continent packed tightly into lorries, often arriving half dead without having been fed or watered.

206 She holds me tightly against her on one side, my sister on the other.

207 Her eyelids flew up like window blinds wound too tightly.

208 The cigarette was held in place quite tightly with the end outside and filter tip towards him.

209 Twenty days of tightly timetabled designer runway shows have sealed the forward fate of fashion.

210 The new products are part of a major SunConnect initiative to address the growing demand for tightly interconnected LANs and WANs.

211 Edam cheeses have waxed coatings which adhere tightly to the cheese.

212 Cover tightly and gently steam over a medium heat for 20 minutes. 3.

213 Putting the kettle on the gas, she went to her daughter and hugged her tightly.

214 Biochemical studies indicate that calcium-calmodulin binds to a protein of M r 240K which is tightly associated with the channel.

215 Domestic Edam cheeses are waxed or have other tightly adhering coating that may be red or another color.

216 Her leg hurt as if the muscles were strung too tightly from hip to knee.

217 Reason that is disengaged and tightly regulated would starve other human faculties, they believed.

218 Sensing she was being watched, she spun round to face the doorway, the Beretta gripped tightly at arm's length.

219 Rules and codes bolting the social structure tightly into place.

220 High quality, tightly woven fabric is used, with Hood's renowned soft finish for easy handling and long life.

221 In Fear, as it focuses tightly on a single subject and its effects, the 50-minute length is to its advantage.

222 Never has fear gripped me so tightly, yet it was exhilarating, fantastic even.

223 Why did one time and three space dimensions flatten out, while the other dimensions remain tightly curled.

224 Colour a little more royal icing pink, keep tightly wrapped, and colour the remaining royal icing green.

225 To perform well it has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow band of frequencies.

226 She squeezed her eyes shut tightly, feeling the sting of tears behind her eyelids.

227 One straight forward solution for sash windows is to allow minimum fullness in the curtains themselves and tie them back tightly during daytime.

228 But neither its strength nor her tightly closed eyes could shut out horror.

229 Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other, like a huge wall in the foreshortened view.

230 His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.

231 All maneuvers now take place under military-civilian agreements that are tightly monitored.

232 She hugged her handbag tightly to her sides, comforted by the thought of the Pathfinder inside.

233 Even with the lids on tightly, they release minute amounts of chemicals which may be dangerous if they accumulate.

234 Her sister, Rachel, sat on the couch, her hands clasped tightly together.

235 Indeed, Beautiful World is a dense collection of tightly constructed tracks characterized by their complexity and variety.

236 In their place a solid row of brick facades pressed the old building tightly on each side.

237 This proved impossible: the fist was too tightly clenched in its terminal seizure.

238 Areas of poor acoustic quality but tightly constrained by local syntactic and semantic information would be identified through top-down prediction.

239 This masculinity was emphasised by her uncompromising coiffure, her grey hair drawn tightly back and screwed into a straggling bun.

240 The tightly fitting bodice was cut quite low over Comfort's small bosom.

241 Berdichev smiled tightly and gave the barest of nods in response to Clarac's respectful bow.

242 Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.

243 Squeezing her eyes so tightly shut that they looked like senile lips, Mary began to gabble.

244 While they all wore gas masks, none were tightly clothed, and none wore gloves.

245 Red lopes past Jody, who is standing by the sidelines with her arms crossed tightly against her chest.

246 Gone are the days when women recording artists were tightly packaged and adorned with ribbons.

247 The drawcords on the fleece and the Merlin sleeping bag pull in freely and close tightly if required.

248 Her long fingers gripped the spoon so tightly her knuckles were white.

249 The kitchen door opened a crack and a servant, her head bound tightly in blue cloth, peeked into the room.

250 The parcel was substantial, tightly wrapped in brown paper, crisscrossed by waxed brown twine with many knots.

251 She was sitting with her knees pressed close together and her hands clasped tightly in her lap.

252 When disturbed they roll up so tightly that it is virtually impossible to unroll them.

253 The video also shows McCovery, eyes tightly closed, singing hymns in church or dripping wet after her baptism last August.

254 She sank down on the bed with the photograph gripped so tightly in her hands that the paper buckled.

255 His thoughts were with the two figures ahead, so tightly linked beneath the sheltering dome of the umbrella.

256 He descended the stairs slowly in the dark, his hand holding tightly on to the banister rail.

257 To extend their storage life, tightly wrap and freeze them.

258 The MACs are tightly guarded and seem to engender fierce loyalty in their users.

259 The zip gaped open an inch at his waist, which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt.

260 Continuing to keep your arms crossed tightly over each other, raise them to chest height.

261 Her face was flushed, she drew her coat tightly around herself and she dropped her eyes.

262 The snakes multiplied, swarming over her, binding her more tightly to the chair.

263 The baby was sleeping, its lids tightly closed and its little face red and perfect at the same time.

264 Edward closed his eyes tightly as memories came flooding back.