Sentence examples for tightening around from inspiring English sources
But the noose is tightening around his parents' necks.
THE noose appears to be tightening around the neck of Zhou Yongkang, China's former security chief.
PRESIDENT Obama says the noose is tightening around Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
"The noose is tightening around my neck," he told one foreign visitor recently.
But now Ntaganda may be feeling the net tightening around him.
"The net is tightening around DSK," said the daily Le Parisien on Friday.
"The table grew quiet, faces tightening around it," Lichtblau says, as Ziglar expanded on his tutorial.
The circle of fouled material seemed to be tightening around the fish like a noose.
When his crucifix is found in Alice's bed, popery joins witchery in the ring of suspicions tightening around her.
Instead, the mayor issued a warrant for Mr Ravalomanana's arrest.The noose was tightening around the president's neck.
He is shown with a rubber band literally and metaphorically tightening around his "gonads, jewels, testes, huevos".
