Sentence examples for tight collar from inspiring English sources

Thirst was like a tight collar about our throats.

A tight collar was placed for several months around U.S. intelligence.

Montague is genial but determined, and before I could demur he had me packed into a two-thousand-dollar Gore-Tex dry suit with an unbearably tight collar, highly insulated rubber bootees, and an electric-blue life jacket.

It's a heck of a job being secretary of state when the White House puts a tight collar around the big issues — Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine and Iraq — and you're left with Nagorno-Karabakh, disputed Ottoman crimes of World War I and, if you're lucky, U.S. bases on Okinawa.

Pressure on the carotid sinuses by a tight collar, by turning the head to the side, in swallowing, or even in shaving the side of the neck over the carotid sinus may be sufficient to cause the syncope, or it may occur spontaneously.

"If you have high-pressure glaucoma, and you're going around with a tight collar or necktie, your pressure will go up and your medicine isn't going to work," Krupin says.

They just stand there, in bespoke suits and tight collars, moving ever so slightly, their faces impassive, their hair flattened.

Six reasons why men lose their hair: "Wearing hard hats; wearing tight collars; shallow breathing; constantly wetting the hair; excessive indoor mental work; indigestion".

Cast against Bond as Dr. No was Joseph Wiseman, who had no inkling of the storm that the film would create, or of the long line of malformed egomaniacs in tight collars that it was his unwitting privilege to head.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Six reasons why men lose their hair: "Wearing hard hats; wearing tight collars; shallow breathing; constantly wetting the hair; excessive indoor mental work; indigestion".

They ate the melon in less than two minutes while the lads, instead of waiting out in the corridor, stood well back, near the door, fingering their bow ties and tight collars and fiddling with their cuffs.