Sentence examples for retighten from inspiring English sources

One evening, however, a guard loosened the ropes for him, he said, and then returned at the end of his shift to retighten them.

Colonel Wheelock retightened the quick-disconnect fitting and left the line in place before heading back to the station's airlock.

Linander casually dropped a word to the wise: self-assembled furniture requires retightening over time.

Some economists warned that the Fed is waiting too long to prepare financial markets for a retightening of monetary policy.