The phrase "a tight clamp" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong or secure fastening mechanism, often in contexts related to tools, machinery, or holding objects together.
Example: "To ensure the pipes do not leak, make sure to use a tight clamp to secure them in place."
Alternatives: "a firm grip" or "a secure fastener".
For 23 years, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia has kept a tight clamp on his country's political life, marketing Tunisia as a tourist oasis while dangerous tensions built up beneath the surface.
Place the ball into a tight clamp to ensure that it does not move during drilling.
Hold the head of the victim between your two hands in a tight clamp and do not allow for any movement.
The model represented in Figure 5 provides further support to the idea that topoisomerases II have evolved to recognise stable right-handed DNA and may also help to understand how two DNA segments can simultaneously be confined into a tight protein clamp.
But their assumption was that since little intelligence information had been released, the White House had approved the tight clamp on the sensitive information.
But it is clamped in a tight green belt that prevents its natural growth, meaning that more and more people are fighting over the same space.
Cushing is a big boy, a University of Southern California boy, and he took his chances, like clamping on to a tight end's arm and hoping the ref wasn't looking.
In the movie, to convey the menace of the place, he clamped that open hand into a tight fist.
After such an open half, both sides tried to clamp down on errors, but there were moments of quality to light up a tight second period.
Clamp loaders are composed of two to five distinct subunits that assemble into a tight heteropentameric complex with an overall structure that is conserved throughout evolution.
The patch-clamp technique electrically isolates a small patch of neuron or muscle cell membrane by applying the tip of a micropipette filled with conducting solution to the membrane and forming a tight seal with it.
