Sentence examples for tight tighten from inspiring English sources

Place your work in an embroidery hoop and set drum tight, tighten the screw with the flat section of the hoop against the machine bed, or hold tightly in your hands.

"In markets that rely more on credit, any recovery will be more muted if lending standards remain tight or tighten".

Pull the straps tight, then tighten said strap holders.

Hold the cable, loosen the Allen key, pull the cable tight and tighten up again.

The filter will generally say how tight to tighten it, so look to the specifications on the box for more specific instructions.

In an era of tight and tightening budgets, a review panel for the foundation's astronomy division two years ago looked for places where money could be freed up for new facilities.

When bringing the ratchet straps tight, don't tighten them so hard to a point where you begin to bend certain components of your motorcycle.

By now the oil should be drained out of the engine oil pan so wipe the oil off your hands from removing the filter and get the oil plug and screw it in hand tight and then tighten down snug with a wrench.

"Much tighter fiscal tightening in the US could tip the US economy into a recession that monetary policy can do little to prevent," it warned.

College-bound procrastinators, beware: When state budgets get tight, application deadlines can tighten up, too.

110 HangAmDan-B, an anti-invasive agent extracted from eight Korean medical animals and plants, can inhibit the cell migration and invasion of NCI-H460 lung cancer cells and tighten the tight junctions through down-regulating claudin-1, -2, -3, and -4 at both transcriptional and translational levels.