Sentence examples for press tight from inspiring English sources

Her eyes close, press tight, and open.

A common type of shaft seal consists of an elastomer (elastic rubberlike) ring bonded to a metallic ring that is a press (tight) fit in the hole in the housing through which the shaft extends.

Bastian Schweinsteiger tends to sit in midfield, allowing Sami Khedira to join an attacking of three of Thomas Müller, Mesut Ozil and Lukas Podolski, who like to press tight against the opposition's back four and support the lone frontman, usually Miroslav Klose.

Her lips were loose against her teeth, not pressed tight.

Mark stands there staring into the sky, lips pressed tight.

They were pressed tight against it, cheeks and arms.

Then he pulled a lever, and the paper was pressed tight against the type.

Her lips were pressed tight, and her chin was thrust forward.

They would be stacked neatly inside the mold like Lincoln Logs and then held in place by the farce, shovelled in and pressed tight.

Pressed tight against the bones of the forehead, the prefrontal cortex has undergone a dramatic expansion during human evolution, so that it now represents nearly a third of the brain.

By the end of the century, in the Nike balustrade, it is shown pressed tight against the body revealing the forms of the limbs and torso clearly beneath, with brittle, dramatic folds standing clear of the surface.