8 Verbs to Use for the Word tightening

For she felt a tightening of the heart and she caught her breath.

Bobby felt the net tighten.

But now of a sudden and as one that dreamed, he beheld a tender face above him with sad-sweet eyes and lips that bent to kiss his brow, felt soft arms about himtender arms that drew his weary head upon a gentle bosom to hide and pillow it there; felt that enfolding embrace tighten and tighten in sudden shuddering spasm, as, sighing, the lady Abbess's white-clad arms fell away and her proud head sank beside his in the dust.

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

But there is hardly a screw or nut on a new automobile that will not require tightening after a little hard usage; this is quite in the nature of things, and not a fault.

The name brought a tightening about his heart, and when Father Oliver stumbled to his feethe had walked many miles, and was tiredhe began to think he must tell Nora of the miracle that had happened about a milehe thought it was just a milebeyond Patsy Regan's public-house.

" She made a little grimace, but immediately afterwards he saw the cold tightening of her lips.

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.

8 Verbs to Use for the Word  tightening