"tighten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I finished tightening the splints and pulled mittens and fur gloves back on my silk-clad but already frozen hands.
- Harvath finished tightening his FRIES harness and inspected it, then inspected Meg's and DeWolfe's.
- He went on to describe in great detail, as he finished tightening the knots, in what condition they had found the remains, if any, of former occupants of the stake.
- Hex sniffed, finishing tightening the tourniquet as if he were straightening a necktie.
- Min and Elayne came back with their own mounts just as he finished tightening the second girth.
- His son, too soft by far, Rustem thought, was visibly struggling not to cry as Rustem finished tightening the drawstrings on his pack one morning and turned to bid a last farewell to all of them.
- Vetch saddled the now-sated dragon, and the Jouster arrived just as he finished tightening the last of the straps.
- The wrench slipped as he finished tightening the bolt; it slipped from his grasp, fell free.
- In Germany, for instance, Benetton recently finished tightening its franchise network after sales slipped badly in the early 1990's.
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