"tight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Israeli tanks and armored vehicles maintain a tight cordon around both towns.
- Marines drew a tight cordon around the city, but faced a persistent armed resistance.
- The soldiers were standing in a tight cordon; if they fired, they would wipe each other out.
- Thanks to the large area covered by the Southlake Hotel, the police had been unable to form a tight cordon.
- The guards held a tight cordon around the place.
- The government had a tight little cordon around my room.
- Let's get a tighter cordon around the parts of the Palace where the girl might be.
- I think, in that way, we'll have a pretty tight cordon established.
- But the tight cordon placed around this city seems to have been too much for him.
- Zombies formed a tight cordon about him as they watched.
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