Sentence examples for tighten for a while from inspiring English sources
But these results aren't just stable across pollsters, they've also been quite stable over the past few weeks, even as the race appeared to tighten for a while.
"What tends to happen is that they catch you doing one thing, you tighten up for a while, but you relax back into the culture; you get caught again, you tighten up, you relax, you get caught again.
But treaties can be loosened as well as tightened; they fit for a while, then must be revised.
The Fed tightens, tightens, tightens, but nothing happens for a while.
(Indeed, the real vote total in Ohio tightened quite a bit for a while after the network calls before loosening again).
The kids working the door were being wimps and a bunch of NYC kids were sneaking in, so I took door duty for a while to tighten up our operation.
During previous spells of "freedom", it has ignored her for a while, gradually tightened restrictions on her, and then found some pretext to lock her up again.
The economy was starting to recover (it was actually adding 300,000 jobs a month for a while), and investors expected the Fed to tighten a lot.
Europe has had a looser monetary policy for a while now, but there are hints that the central bank will tighten things.
