Sentence examples for tight up from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'tight up' is not correct in written English.
You can use the phrases 'tied up' or 'tied up tight' for a similar meaning. Example: She was tied up tight so she could not free herself.

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Anderson is coming around the wicket to Warner, trying to keep the ball tight up on his off-stump.

He had huddled at his battle station by the fantail gun, with his kapok life jacket tied tight up to his cheeks.

Our bounds turn out to be tight (up to logarithmic in the design dimension factors), and can be viewed as a substantial extension of the existing lower complexity bounds for large-scale convex minimization covering the nonsmooth case and the "Euclidean" smooth case (minimization of convex functions with Lipschitz continuous gradients over Euclidean balls).

The water was tight up to the door".

Norman is in trouble again, with his ball tight up against the lip of a bunker.

His line is tight up on Warner's hip, and his pace is a little sharper than Anderson's, up around 86mph.

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The Suns topped 100 points for the second time this season and outscored the visiting Pacers by 10-3 over the final 3 05 in a tight, up-and-down game.

On "The Mortal Remains," everything was shot tight, up-close and stationary.

The stockings work by forcing the blood in the lower leg, where the hose is tightest, up toward the heart.

The oil industry has not increased, and in some cases has reduced, exploration budgets, making a tight supply even tighter up ahead.

By pulling the tights up as far as possible and taking very small steps up and back, I was able to avoid dropping my tights in front of the entire congregation of Highland Prairie Lutheran Church.

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