Sentence examples for drew tighter from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

With each inhalation, my chest drew tighter and tighter.

Steve Huey of AllMusic believed Rubin drew tighter and faster songs from the band, and delivered a cleanly produced sound that contrasted sharply with their previous recordings.

The redrock walls soon drew tight to the road.

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

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

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.

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.

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.