Sentence examples for tighter round from inspiring English sources

It is a hot summer day, but she wears a cardigan which she pulls tighter round her shoulders every so often.

There's something too cruel – in these days when airports seem weekly to devise new ways to humiliate, to rob, to give you three minutes to find a gate four miles away and, generally, ratchet iron bands of tension ever tighter round your frazzled head – in being reminded of what once was.

Treviso is not available in every market, but can easily be replaced by its tight round cousin, regular radicchio.

"These are so well loved, I had them mended and they're now so tight round the knees it's hard to bend in them".

Which is why Damien Hirst is standing in a pasture with his tights round his knees and a daisy jammed into his foreskin.

He is more sympathetic to the "neurasthenic" view and more willing to endanger the dignity of his subject by telling us about Proust's need for his underpants to be held tight round his waist with a pin.

It's a tight round of "Game of CEO's" at Twitter right now as the board circles in on a short list of who might have the right stuff for the job.

The trousers are too tight round the waist.

My pack, sodden and waterlogged, strapped tight round my shoulders, seemed made for easy drowning.

There's greater arboreal variety, too - snobbish poplar-like trees and spruce, their leaves and branches wrapped anally tight round their spindle-shafts, look down snootily on less lofty neighbours that exhibit a more abundant girth and more generous breadth of green as early spring works its wonders at this lower altitude.

In tumors, CD133+ cells exhibit pleomorphic giant cell nuclei and appear granular and dense; in two-dimensional cultures they form tight round colonies.