tightly
IPA: tˈaɪtɫi
adverb
- In a tight manner.
- (of speech) Curtly in a way that suggests anger or other intense emotion is being contained.
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Examples of "tightly" in Sentences
- On her face she wore an expression of tightly capped anxiety.
- The restriction to only one point-of-deviation in tightly-argued Alt-History is another case (and a more extreme one).
- It was Gogoomy talking, and as she listened she gripped her bridle - rein tightly and a wave of anger passed over her.
- My dog leaves more intelligence and compassion on the lawn in tightly coiled piles than some of these trolls can manage to muster.
- Still, they are often featured in tightly censored official newspapers and television shows, which strongly influence public opinion in China.
- Little known internationally, he is a hero in his own country, his name tightly—and literally—linked with Finland's crusade for independence at the turn of the 20th century.
- There is no question of the possibility in space of four dimensions of entering or passing out of what we call a tightly shut box or room, or of removing the contents of an egg without disturbing the shell (see foot-note p. 23).
- I could imagine a USA of the future that is home to, say, a billion people, but the vast bulk of these people live in tightly-packed Japan-style urban archipelagos characterized by an extremely high quality of life, and leaving far more undeveloped land to nature than the USA of 2010.
- There has been much commentary about the fact that Alexander McQueen's moving memorial service at St. Paul's Cathedral a couple of weeks ago must have been unnervingly familiar for us fashion folk, seated as we were in tightly packed rows, according to rank, with what could have easily counted for a catwalk running up to the pulpit of this esteemed place of worship.
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