Similar words: frightened, enlightened, tighten, lighten, frighten, heighten, brighten, enlighten. Meaning: ['taɪtn] adj. made tighter or more stringent.
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61. Laura's normally full, warm lips tightened with annoyance.
62. Denis tightened his grip on his gun.
63. The U.S. tightened the economic noose around the dictatorship.
64. The Bashers tightened lips, hunched shoulders, and let fly.
65. Other less historic factors have tightened the bond.
66. His arms tightened around her in a bear hug.
67. Instantly her hands tightened their grip.
68. Ashley's fingers tightened involuntarily around the glass.
69. His body tightened, the muscles drawing in on themselves.
70. The grip tightened slightly,[http://sentencedict.com/tightened.html] then relaxed again.
71. Oats tightened his grip on the axe.
72. His stomach tightened as he reached the doorway.
73. My arms tightened; my jaw tightened; my hands tightened.
74. Security was tightened up at the embassy after a number of important files went missing.
75. There were months of interrogations, torture and repression as the military tightened its grip on the country.
76. The effort exhausted him although he could not comfortably lie still and his temples tightened.
77. I smoothed out my necktie and tightened my loosened suspenders and patted down my red hair.
78. In recent years, most countries have tightened their standards of waste disposal.
79. A sheet metal punch is drawn through by being tightened with an Allen key.
80. The estate owners tightened their systems, with a view to greater productivity - new breeds, crops, implements and methods.
81. Having just undertaken a costly bail-out of the thrifts and tightened regulations, it might seem that this problem is behind us.
82. The consensus is that the Kiev government has tightened controls over the small arms trade in recent months.
83. She looked anxious and tightened her grip on her shoulder bag.
84. D'Arcy's grip tightened round her shoulders as he felt her hot tears against his skin.
85. Unthinking, she tightened her grip and felt him laugh under her hands.
86. His arm shook and he tightened his grip on the stock of the rifle to still it.
87. His lean pocked body tightened, turned brown, found a different shape.
88. Her hand tightened convulsively on the receiver, the earpiece jerked against her face.
89. Frustratingly his grip merely tightened, sending a tingling awareness surging through her.
90. As adults our abdomens get tightened up from stress, and we get used to taking very short, shallow breaths.
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