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Sentence count:264+27Posted:2016-07-21Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: lightlyslightlytightenhighlightlightnightrightmightMeaning: [ˈtaɪtlɪ]  adv. 1. in a tight or constricted manner 2. securely fixed or fastened. 
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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.
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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.
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