Sentence examples for close-fisted from inspiring English sources

It's a close-fisted death punch of a building that doesn't so much blend with the surrounding architecture as pummel it into submission.

An iron hand is rule that is rigid, stubborn, severe, even cruel; iron-fisted has an additional connotation of "parsimonious, close-fisted, niggardly".

"With his left arm rigidly stuck to his side, his right waves wildly in the close-fisted point that they teach you these days during the first lesson of Public Speaking 101," Jonathan V.

"For a lot of entrepreneurs used to a close-fisted approach, that's a really torturous change".

She continually, and unsuccessfully, sought gifts of jewels or money from her close-fisted father; but this was probably largely out of a concern for the welfare of her mother and children.

Use one close-fisted hand held at the center of the diaper, when pulling the diaper up into position.

The most indelible image of her near the end is as a stooped old lady reacting to the enthusiastic cheers that greeted her with a raised, closed-fisted Black Power salute.

This just isn't used in modern parlance, except when someone places something pointy in her fist to make a weapon, as in, "When the assailant got close, she fisted her key, preparing to strike".

This just isn't used in modern parlance, except when someone places something pointy in their fist to make a weapon, as in, "When the assailant got close, she fisted her key, preparing to strike".

It was more a concert of groove and atmosphere than melody, except for the set-closer: a two-fisted solo version of "Such a Night" that made the piano a brass band, a carousel, a cotillion orchestra and a burlesque strutter.

I would sit him on my lap and hold his fisted hand close to his face and ask him to touch his eyes, nose and so on.