Sentence examples for held on tightly from inspiring English sources
Now I learn that in your home country you escaped the militia barefoot, under cover of the night, hiding in thick jungles as you carried your youngest child while the older one held on tightly to your dress.
He had the ability to convey massive depth with just a few words, and I held on tightly to each one of them.
Gao Ming held on tightly.
Dangling in midair, he wrapped his arms and legs around his harness rope and held on tightly.
Margit Sharff, 59, and her husband, Ernest, held on tightly to a cord to keep Mickey from floating away.
He held on tightly to an aide's hand and blinked in the blazing sunlight as he walked carefully down the four stone steps to the sidewalk.
Selection for postnatal grasping, therefore, has not had the high survival value in humans that it has in nonhuman primates, in which the survival of the infant depends on its ability to hold on tightly.
Finally, really hold on tightly to the things that inspire you about music.
Wearing whiteface makes the brothers seem somehow blacker: those wigs and dresses transform mild-mannered F.B.I. agents into swaggering black clichés; when they're undercover, they have to hold on tightly to white stereotypes, to make sure the black ones don't take over.
Teams like the Jets hold on tightly to poorly performing quarterbacks for a number of reasons.
