Sentence examples for someone tightening from inspiring English sources

Patients describe it like having an elephant sit on you, or someone tightening an iron belt around your chest until the pain is excruciating.

"In a perfect world I'd find someone who would come in to invest and manage the company — someone to really tighten up operations and staffing," Ms. Shaw replied.

By coupling the expansion of coverage with reforms that significantly slow the growth of health-care costs, we can dramatically improve the long-run fiscal situation without tightening prematurely.As someone who has written somewhat critically of the short-sightedness of policymakers in the late 1930s, I feel new humility.

Around the same time, Valdez had an episode herself, a tightening in her chest that felt as if someone were squeezing her with a belt.

Hardaway's face tightened when someone asked about Ward's elusiveness on Sunday.

Instead, jaws tightened when someone brought up how Robert E. Lee High School got its name in the first place.

In the courtroom, the air seemed to tighten when someone with a familiar kind of cultural authority was speaking: the stern judge, the no-nonsense police officer, the sweet and impassioned mother.

So, a question: if you wrap a ligature around someone's throat and tighten it until it breaks their neck or they choke to death, what is the deterrent effect of this compared with, say, tying them by the neck to a crane and then jerking them violently upward?

Tightening now is unwarranted.

We're tightening up".

Tightening Costs.