Sentence examples similar to tighten ourselves from inspiring English sources

"We still found ourselves having to tighten our underwriting of subprime mortgage loans six times through the end of 2007," he wrote.

"Newtown forced us to ask ourselves some questions and tighten up our practices," Ian Fisher, the assistant managing editor in charge of the newsroom's digital report, told me.

The instructor encouraged us to hold ourselves there, to lift our hearts into our backs, to tighten our quads and press into our forearms.

It would tighten it.

"It'll tighten".

We might therefore try to tighten the definition by saying that a miracle is an event that exceeds the productive power of nature (St. Thomas Aquinas, SCG 3.103; ST 1.110, art. 4), where "nature" is construed broadly enough to include ourselves and any other creatures substantially like ourselves.

Tighten your belts, folks.

Does your chest tighten?

I tighten my hood.

I tighten my helmet.

Air Time! Grips tighten.