Sentence examples for tighten under from inspiring English sources

She felt Grisha's soft belly tighten under her stroking hand.

She felt his belly tighten under her, hard as a board.

I sat for an hour on the slippery edge of a rickety chair, preparing to spring forward every time I saw young Cosgrove's muscles tighten under his coat sleeve.

Form a hook at the end of the new black wire with the 7 tag and tighten under the 7 terminal on the receptacle.

Media control, having relaxed over many years, is now tightening under Mr Hu.

The rules were tightened under the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

The screws will be further tightened under a bill to give the national spy agency sweeping powers to monitor citizens.

Cheek admitted not all academic topics of discussion would have been affected by the tightening under Xi.

Even the conditions allowing for the use of fixed-term C.D.D. contracts were recently tightened under a law passed in March known as the Loi Sauvadet.

Only later, with the tightening under way and with an economic recovery firmly established, would the Fed start to sell the assets, he said.

The bill devolved commissioning powers to GPs and relaxed the rules for private providers, though the initial plans were tightened under pressure from the Liberal Democrats.