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tightly English

Meaning tightly meaning

What does tightly mean?

tightly

in a tight or constricted manner a tightly packed pub securely fixed or fastened the window was tightly sealed

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Topics tightly topics

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Simple sentences

I hugged her tightly.
She gripped my arm tightly.
Tightly-knit carpets are generally more valuable.
I always tie my shoes tightly before I go jogging.
Tom hugged Mary tightly.
This belt fits me too tightly.
He hugged her tightly.
Don't close the jar too tightly.
Tom closed his eyes tightly and endured the pain.
Tom's hands were tightly clenched into fists.
Tom squeezed Mary tightly.
Tom and Mary were holding hands, their fingers tightly interlaced.
He gripped the tennis racket tightly.
When Jane played horse with her father, she held on to him tightly.
Freedom of speech was tightly restricted.
He held her tightly.
She held her hands tightly over her ears.
She held on to my hand tightly.
She closed the door tightly behind her.
I hugged him tightly and cried.
I held on to the rope tightly so I wouldn't fall.

Movie subtitles

Aigo, here, tie it tightly.
Just wrap it up tightly.
See that they fit tightly behind the ears.
Make certain that all the windows are tightly shut.
Now, the next thing I'll do is to roll them up tightly into a ball. My dear, this is a surprise!
Grip tightly with your legs. Lean forward and go with him.
No, tightly, both of you.
Hold me tightly, darling.
Just hold me tightly before I go.
See that his arms are tightly stretched.
But sometimes the little one sneaks into our room and slips into our bed between the two of us. He takes one of my fingers and squeezes it tightly.
Proving, on one hand, that the threads of history are woven tightly, and the skein of events cannot be undone.
I can hold a hundred thousand men tightly in this way.
Perhaps, my lady, if we were to bind his wounds tightly.
We pressed tightly together. Then his lips met mine.
Grip tightly with your legs.
Tightly now. Now, put your fist well through the bars.
Close your fingers tightly on this, palm downward.
He'd be letting you know it, too, if his jaw weren't bandaged so tightly.
If you clench it too tightly, you choke it.
Hold it too tightly, you choke it.
The new tapestry will be tightly woven, Mr Elliott.
Tie those tightly.
Close the door tightly.
It's knotted so tightly.
We wrap them tightly round his leg, like a tourniquet.
Hold onto me tightly, my ladies.
Hold her hand tightly.
He'd be letting you know it, too, if his jaw weren't bandaged so tightly. Let's control the pain.
Perhaps the pipes do not seal tightly?
But if you want to see another day, I advise you to keep it tightly shut.
Tie those tightly. We are moving.
She held me tightly.
Hang on to the ladder tightly.
We must hold them tightly.
Supple hairs tightly packed for in between.
On a bench close by an old man stares into space for hours on end; his is mummified, perfectly still, with his heels together, his chin leaning on the knob of the walking-stick that he grips tightly with both hands, gazing into emptiness, for hours.
The two tenth-rate old actors have not come to fetch you, hugging you so tightly that you formed a unity which would have brought all three of you down together had one of you knocked out.

News and current affairs

Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.
Earlier this year, they staged partial, and tightly regulated municipal elections, with no independent opinion permitted to influence when and how the ballots were held.
These large-scale changes will have to be coordinated, at least informally if not tightly, among the major economies.
Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia is tightly integrated into the world economy, rendering the country vulnerable to the current global financial crisis.
Every cell in your body (except mature red blood cells) - there are about 50 trillion in an adult - contains copies of your DNA, which are coiled up tightly to form 46 separate bundles called chromosomes.
But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.
The European Central Bank, tightly focused on price stability, has been raising interest rates, and the US Federal Reserve may soon follow suit.
Obama did not, however, define the new goals tightly, leaving that up to NASA - a sensible and modest approach, but unfortunately a political mistake.
The more tightly bound to the democratic world a country like Romania is, the less likely it is to experience dramatic social or political unrest or to eviscerate its democratic system.
In so doing, it could prove that the decline of religion in Europe is not an inevitable process tightly linked to modernization, but a historical choice Europeans have made.
From what we can surmise from this case - and many others like it - they are the semi-urbanized products of a highly conventional rural society where the roles of men, and especially women, are tightly regulated.
According to one story, possibly apocryphal, in the 1970's, the Islamic insurgency in Iran was initially planned using material delivered through porn-related channels because the mosques were so tightly controlled.
Until recently, their rulers had a common interest in keeping this Pandora's Box of borders tightly sealed.
Indeed, the Fed regulates only banks, so liquidity and leverage will migrate to the shadow banking system if banks are regulated more tightly.
Second, the bloody 1959 revolution in Rwanda, a country mirroring Burundi's ethnic and social structure, induced Burundi's Tutsi to cling even more tightly to power.
It may even be the case that we ought to return to the much more tightly regulated financial system of the first post-World War II generation.
For example, haptoglobin tightly binds to hemoglobin subunits, while hemopexin captures the heme when the hemoglobin releases it.
They are tightly constrained by the explanatory substance of Einstein's theory, which holds that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, that light has the same speed for all observers, and so on.
While science was not initially deemed a threat, within today's tightly restricted social and political order, it has emerged as a symbol of autonomy and diversity.
The life of women under such traditional arrangements tended to be tightly circumscribed.
This strategy may be of little use in tightly controlled societies like Iran or North Korea; but Russia is essentially European.
Today, China has replaced Germany (and Japan) as the world's top exporter - but with one difference: it manages its exchange rate tightly, using capital controls and massive intervention in currency markets.
Is it possible to maintain a rigorously independent chairman when it comes to interest rates, and a tightly accountable chairman when he is making supervisory decisions?
Why was it not enough to prove that the Bosnian Serb military leadership was financed and paid by Serbia and that it was tightly connected to Serbia political and military leadership?
Yes, Dubai is certainly an autocratic state where finances are tightly and secretively controlled.

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