"tight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tight adjetivo

tight + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 264
tight end • tight control • tight budget • tight race • tight circle • tight security • tight grip • tight smile • tight spot • tight schedule • ...
verbo + tight
Kolokacji: 11
sit tight • feel tight • grow tighter • hold tight • draw tight • ...
(2) feel, hold, wind
Kolokacji: 3
(3) squeeze, clench, cling
Kolokacji: 3
2. clench tight = zaciśnij mocno clench tight
3. cling tighter = uparcie trwaj mocniej cling tighter
  • The pirate was climbing at a speed that would have distanced any other machine the world had ever seen, but the tenacious opponent behind him clung ever tighter to the tiny darting thing.
  • Another- : He discovered that he was shaking, and clung a little tighter to the Companion's back.
  • Sno clung even tighter to the driver, small against his broad black leather back.
  • She clung ever tighter to him.
  • When I tried to put him down, he clung tighter and laid, "Don t do that, Daddy.
  • She tried to kick free of the weeds; they clung tighter, reaching up past ankle and calf and knee with green slimy fingers that pressed dose against her thighs.
  • Coyote clung tighter to Mardi Gras's body, still unwilling to accept his friend's death, unwilling to accept the gray specter which was drawing closer now on throbbing, idling engines.
  • As the voices of respectability rose in unison against him, he clung even tighter.
  • Timmie, who seemed increasingly disturbed by the vociferousness of the discussion, clung ever tighter to Miss Fellowes.
  • She nodded shyly, clinging a little tighter to Pol.
adverbio + tight
Kolokacji: 16
extremely tight • pretty tight • fairly tight • increasingly tight • unusually tight • ...
tight + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
tight with • tight in • tight to • tight around • tight of • ...

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