Sentence examples for tight one from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, though, the focus can be too tight: One night a family was allowed to watch a ballgame on a portable television they set up at their table.

"Tight, Dan, tight," one man yelled.

They couldn't crack the green-and-red machine in a tight one.

There's no doubt that was the wrong call, if a tight one.

That was in 1959 at the semi-final stage, and the tie proved a tight one.

It can now run an expansionary fiscal policy that offsets the recession, rather than a tight one that aggravates it, as in Latvia and Lithuania.

The senior team, average age 18, are playing a tight, one-touch practice game on a quarter of the impeccably green pitch.

An amusing, rather enigmatic painting by Yasuo Kuniyoshi shows a pudgy young woman in a tight one-piece bathing suit standing on a rock by the sea and smoking a cigarette.

Mr. Alongi has helped the Romney campaign fine-tune its programming so it fits neatly into the tight, one-hour block that the broadcast networks have dedicated to airing the convention in prime time.

It matters: the difference between a boundary four and a boundary six can be the margin of victory in a tight one-day game.John Jameson, the MCC's cricket secretary, says the club's role is convenient.

I'm always fascinated that a peony can grow from a tiny, tight, one-inch diameter bud to a blown-open bloom the size of a grown-man's hand.