Sentence examples for tighter vise from inspiring English sources
The situation puts states, many of them facing huge deficits, in an even tighter vise.
Which puts George in an even tighter vise than before: Not just the prospect of jail, but the choice between fighting the charges himself or telling the truth and pointing the finger of blame where it belongs - at his father.
In the "Star Trek" prequel, Spock's father tells him, "You will always be a child of two worlds," urging him not to keep such a tight vise on his emotions.
But we also realize, having come to know the other lives entangled with Charlie's, that Ashaunt's spell can involve something much more complex than a dearly held childhood attachment, that a house like this, where "everyone could be together and so tight," can also feel "vise tight, tight enough to blow a fuse".
The tighter the financial vise gets, the more Mike's manner comes across as healthy realism: unlike Frankie, he accepts life's limits.
Still, the vise was tight.
And the race is vise-tight because Mitt's a marvel.
In interviews this week, Greek government officials and Olympic organizers said that none of that was surprising, that most projects were on schedule and that Athens had recovered from early delays that consigned some key endeavors to vise-tight timetables.
The crowd squeezed the band vise-tight, bumping bassist Terry Johnson and Rymodee into Ted Helmick's drumset, which fell away from his foot mid-thump, cymbals spilling onto the dirt floor.
Tight bends almost always require a vise, jig, or specialty tool.
