762 examples of tightening in sentences

" Gray turned and looked into the flushed, tremulous face beside him with a sudden tightening in his throat.

Humanity is tightening.

He paused with a tightening throat, for the form on the bed seemed moving, too, with sly and scarcely perceptible gestures.

" The first available thing for tightening the tourniquet was the barrel of Pete Leddy's gun and the first suggestion for material came from her.

"Are you going to tell him, Peggy?" "Cer-tain-ly not," rejoined Peggy, with a tightening of her lips.

" "I'll give you a chance to explain," said the officer grimly, tightening his hold on Roy's collar, "as things stand at present, I believe you to be as black a young traitor as ever wore shoe leather.

The screws in the junk ring are each provided with a small ratchet, cut in a washer fixed upon the head, to prevent the screw from turning back; and the number of clicks given by these ratchets, in tightening up the bolts, enables the engineer to know when they have all been tightened equally.

He thought of his good old father sitting at his work-bench or tightening the screw of the press; he thought of the shop packed with bound volumes and bindings, of his little room where of evenings he read books of travelof all the familiar things of home.

"Do not think to mislead me, villain," cried Leonard, tightening his grasp.

We all remember Sinbad's Old Man of the Sea, and the grip of that merciless rider tightening closer and closer the longer he was carried by his disgusted victim.

They did not answer, but hands were tightening around revolver butts.

While burning the grooves for the clamp, and while tightening the clamp itself, the animal's foot should be on the ground and bearing weight at the heels, thus insuring the greatest possible approximation of the edges of the crack.

This method of binding admits of after-tightening should it unfortunately work loose.

Crushing the note in his hand, Aldous looked at the other, his mouth tightening.

"I saw him," she whispered, her fingers tightening convulsively.

He could not have told why his eyes grew strangely dim as he heard it now, or why a strange tightening came around his heart.

" Ben's eyes fastened on the box; and the others saw a queer drawing of the lines of his face, a curious tightening and clasping of his fingers.

"But"with a sudden tightening of the lips"I'm not going to break yours.

And to-day, while we live in a period of tightening and extending social organisation, we live also in a period of adventurous and insurgent thought, in an intellectual spring unprecedented in the world's history.

I said just now that the conversion of the Emperor will mean a tightening up of repressive measures against the infidels everywhere.

In each case the pulling up commenced with the rise of the needle, and the tightening operation subjected the thread to all the friction of rubbing its way through both needle eye and fabric.

Not only has it been possible by these means to control the tightening of the stitch, but the paying out of the thread for enveloping the shuttle also, and both the paying out and pulling up are actually effected after the needle has ascended above the cloth.

The first band is left rather loose, and the machine is set in motion by the tightening of this band through the depression of the treadle.

He was always tightening my axle-burrs, or dosing me with kerosene through my hot-air pipe, or toying with my timer.

He was somewhat cut and bruised, but not seriously hurt, and tightening the saddle-girth I waded along through the water, leading him after me until I was able to regain the path.

762 examples of  tightening  in sentences