"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
  • But I kept my lips squeezed tight and said nothing.
  • She was already squeezed far tighter than she ever wanted to be.
  • There was no pretense now, for his hand squeezed painfully tight.
  • Luke had to squeeze pretty tight to get back to the stock car without climbing on the roof, but he made it.
  • It seemed that many hands held me, squeezing tight and shaking me.
  • Gallo squeezes tight and I float back to last night.
  • A long time, Alvin learned, as he held on, squeezing tighter and tighter.
  • The Federation might never recover our position because you refused to squeeze a little tighter on the engines and get my team there in time!
  • If he held on and squeezed a little tighter, she'd croak, but he wasn't that desperate yet.
  • Its rounded bottom is designed to let the vessel ride up above the ice as it is squeezed ever tighter.
2. clench tight = zaciśnij mocno clench tight
3. cling tighter = uparcie trwaj mocniej cling tighter
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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