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The phrase "something tightening" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a sense of physical or emotional constriction. For example: "The room felt heavy with tension, almost like something tightening around my chest."
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"With the delay, I was kind of concerned with my body or something tightening up, but I was able to loosen up and I felt good".
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As my finger hovered over the send button, I felt something tighten around me, and like Tahir, I was paralyzed by the decision in front of me.
The minute you feel something tighten up anywhere, try to push the pain out.
I always want to change something – make something clearer, tighten it up, add something... 10.
Extending the metaphor, while Wal-Mart is positioned to pay reduced tolls, the Republican mantra sounds something like, tighten the belts, up gas prices and keep the riff-raff off the roads through austerity measures and deficit reduction.
Choose a plastic nozzle if you want something that tightens onto the hose easily and creates less wear and tear on the hose.
Ireland is planning to cut the pay of public workers, again, and fiscal tightening — something needed to fight inflation, not deflation — is the order of the day in many countries.
It has tried to luxuriate cravenly in Closer magazine's exclusive about Kerry Katona's interest in availing herself of something called "minky tightening" – "a nonsurgical procedure using plastic balls, rejuvenating cream and a vacuum to strengthen the pelvic floor and tighten the vagina".
Then they tighten something or loosen something, nod sympathetically to my wife, and head for the door — fast — leaving me with flecks on the glasses and mounting disappointment.
I felt irrevocably grieved, wounded, but a part of my feelings started to tighten; something went dead; something is still crying.
I worry that Everyday Carry is a window on a vanishing cargo cult, a group of men and women who think that something out there needs tightening and that at some point they'll need to tell the time and the power will be out and the world will have stopped and the only thing running will be an automatic Seiko diver in blaze orange strapped to their wrist.
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