Sentence examples for slightly too tight from inspiring English sources

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He tugged at a blue jacket only slightly too tight around the middle.

For sale: adult women's shoes, worn once, very cool, slightly too tight in the toes.

In sixth grade math class, I felt that boy giggling at the space between the buttons on my slightly too tight red shirt (that I never wore again).

If the shelves are slightly too tight, use a shoulder plane or paring chisel to trim them to a nice snug fit.

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This may affect your purchase — if a pair of jeans feels just ever-so-slightly too tight when you try them on, you may be able to get away with wearing them in the long run.

Ten years ago, it was almost impossible to avoid gaggles of girls in matching velvet zip-up hoodies and slightly too-tight jogging bottoms on your local high street.

Tiny Furniture is 25-year-old Dunham's name-making feature film in which she plays a version of herself – mostly in states of trouserless disaffection: the defining image of the film is of Lena-as-Austra, dressed in just her pants and a slightly too-tight T-shirt, padding morosely through her mother's sleek Manhattan apartment.

Put on some red lipstick and a slightly too-tight skirt suit, get a blow dry, splatter some Byron sauce on your shoes.

In short: music that makes you want to take your clothes off, rather than put some new, slightly-too-tight ones on.

Olly Murs, sprinting into touch in a slightly-too-tight full England kit.

That's the good thing about old friends: you can say they look like Bodybuilder Zombie Nutkins, because you know the exact line you cross with them, the exact parameters of their sense of humour, the exact thing you can say before they flex their massive Nutkinesque arms and put you in a slightly-too-tight headlock.

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