Sentence examples for tightly about from inspiring English sources

She closes her eyes, and folds her arms tightly about herself.

Founded in 1780 about 30 miles south of Louisville, Bardstown looks more like a New England town than a Southern one, with well-kept Federal-style brick houses clustered tightly about a central square.

If the participants' judgments are precise (little variation across repeated judgments for the same experimental stimuli), then the individual judgments will cluster tightly about the regression line and the resulting r values will be relatively high.

While some scatter outside the range of ± 90° is seen, the residue alignment overwhelmingly fluctuates quite tightly about 0. In contrast, Al-S1 lacked an overarching structure and any potential binding groups were scattered over the perimeter of the peptide (shown for residue pairs Ser3-Ser4, Ser3-Thr12, and Thr11-Thr12).

String up a clothesline between two trees, tightly, about head-high.

Ask the players to hold the sheet or tablecloth tightly about 1 1⁄2 feet (0.5 m) from the floor.

There Are Too Many of Us is a string-laden march about tightly packed lives that reflects Singapore as well as it does Streatham.

1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice 1 cup arugula, tightly packed (about 30 grams) 1 tablespoon walnuts (7 grams) 1/2 ripe pear, cored and peeled (100 grams) 1 quarter-size piece of fresh ginger, peeled 2 to 4 tablespoons plain low-fat yogurt (to taste) 3 ice cubes Place all of the ingredients in a blender and blend for 1 full minute.

(The chance of a random group of holes gathering so tightly is about 1 in 5000, Muno notes).

The rhythm section throughout is coiled tightly, and about half the songs show promise.

Most of the sensitivities of the At-group (WC pairings) relatively tightly scatter about their mean indicating an only moderate sequence effect.