Sentence examples for tight meaning from inspiring English sources

There has been no reliable polling, but preliminary results from voting stations suggest that the race is tight, meaning even minor rigging could be a game-changer.

Madonna suffered an unfortunate fall on stage last night when her Armani cape was tied too tight meaning instead of it being dramatically whipped off by a dancer as planned, the star was pulled down a flight of stairs.

Household budgets are tight, meaning many people do not have the money to buy a new item if its broken and the seller has refused to sort it out.

Because of the Port Wentworth explosion, U.S. sugar refining capacity is tight, meaning Imperial has been able to pass along all the higher costs and then some to customers like Hershey and Kraft Foods.

With its flagship phone retailing around $300 — its top-selling mid-range devices are priced around $150 — margins are tight meaning that the company generates far less revenue from hardware.

Policy uncertainty leads to market unrest only when monetary and financial conditions are tight, meaning it's more expensive to take out a mortgage, or for Goldman Sachs to buy bonds on margin.

The schedule this season will be tighter, meaning there could be four days when games in both the N.L. and A.L. series will be played: Saturday, Oct. 16; Tuesday, Oct. 19; Wednesday, Oct. 20; and Saturday, Oct. 23.

This seems to be just what Sternbergh wants, as suggested by his diagnosis of what went wrong with action films: "Eventually the shirtless commandos gave way to men in tights," meaning comic-book superheroes; "and from the technical end, computer animation gobbled up everything, chewing it all into weightless pixels".

But now our homes are much better insulated and 'air-tight' - meaning that anything released into the air inside is much more likely to stay there.

In contrast the ranges in ranks for figure 3 are much tighter, meaning that the reliability in decisions in the panel was greater and hence the proportion of always funded and never funded proposals was higher.

The traditional view is that the relationship is fairly tight: the meaning of a complex expression is fully determined by its structure and the meanings of its constituents—once we fix what the parts mean and how they are put together we have no more leeway regarding the meaning of the whole.