Sentence examples for draws tighter from inspiring English sources

Although it is based on the Crown Prosecution Service's guidelines for the Obscene Publications Act, in practice it draws tighter lines.

Yet how acute that spatial relationship is as it draws tighter and you wonder whether she will stop and forgive him, and whether they could have any chance together.

And straight after, the rope draws tight again.

Bangkok's immediate prospects are uncertain, however, as the front lines in battling the flood draw tighter around the city daily.

All the volunteers shared a distinctive look: day by day, their clothes got dirtier, and their faces drew tighter, and their eyes looked more exhausted.

It is pitched to the violent fantasies of his audience, and its purpose is to excite, to transgress, to draw tighter the bonds of shared hatred.

But Dr. Kraut was praised in other quarters for delivering the first study that surveyed the same people multiple times -- a method that enables researchers to draw tighter conclusions about cause and effect.

As the pace quickens and the disparate threads of the narrative draw tighter, you find yourself torn between the desire to rush ahead and the impulse to slow down.

But somehow Ms. Fontaine's attempt to mix styles and genres does not quite work, and instead of drawing tighter, "The Girl from Monaco" snaps and slackens, its apparent ingenuity revealed as a dubious contrivance.

The cleric is said to have been kept under house arrest for a decade or more, but was freed within the last day after his guards fled as the American cordon around the city drew tighter.

Once back in Africa, he determined to starve out Carthage with a blockade by land and sea; gradually the cordon was drawn tighter around the beleaguered city, and in the spring of 146 it fell to his final assault: after six days of street fighting the citadel was captured and Carthage was destroyed.