Sentence examples for grow tight from inspiring English sources

But as the Chiefs frittered away a twenty-eight-point lead on Saturday, my chest began to grow tight with anxiety.

It may also end up infecting as-yet healthy banks.As the Chinese start preparing for the lunar new year by ancient tradition a time for debts to be settled the money may grow tight.

KeySpan directed 650 commercial and institutional customers to turn off the gas for eight hours last Wednesday to test their readiness to switch to heating oil this winter in the event gas supplies grow tight.

Can we not leave?'" Bakshi, 32, says she feels well whenever she goes abroad, so is certain it is Delhi's air that makes her chest grow tight and her breathing raspy.

— After the tumult and the injuries, the dizzying changes and the wild swings of fate, the Knicks concluded their regular season with a 48-minute exhale, a final chance to breathe before the air gets heavy and the lungs grow tight.

It often takes a considerable amount of force to pull out an orchid, since they grow tight against the container's walls.

The stitches may soon grow tighter.

And the numbers are likely to grow, as resources grow tighter and if welfare reform continues.

That grip is likely to grow tighter, and the censorship more absurd.

Sailors also may find that knots in ropes grow tighter before a rain.

But as hospitals budgets grow tighter and more dependent on state money, the reverse is also true — legislators can be a powerful force in a hospital's survival.