Sentence examples for he was tight from inspiring English sources

"I knew he was tight," Rafter said.

But when he moved in he was tight and fierce, aggressive as a grizzly bear.

Last year here he was tight as well, knowing he had a good chance to win.

He was tight and looked quite devilish, with his long face, and the thinning hair plastered flat on his skull.

But he learned a lot because he was tight on the fence and he was on and off the bridle.

He was tight with his money, an obvious carry-over from a youth when cash was always short in his house.

He was tight-lipped and irritable on the stump: so much so that several journalists covering his campaign mounted a brief boycott.

Mr. Wagner said an announcement could come as early as next month, although he was tight-lipped about any front-runners.

He was tight-lipped on the content, saying that he was still to have a conversation with new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, on its content.

Mr. Kelly spoke with members of minority communities after the Bell shooting in intimate meetings, even as he was tight-lipped in public.

Although he allowed that "Mimesis" was "quite consciously a book that a particular person, in a particular situation, wrote at the beginning of the 1940s," he was tight-lipped about his politics and didn't say much about his wartime experiences.