"tightly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Aziz's lips were tightly compressed and for a moment he resisted answering.
- The lips, too, seemed unusual, being tightly compressed, as if by the force of a stronger character than had been Slater's.
- But the huge engineer's mouth was compressed tightly, his features even more severe than usual.
- Her jaw was clenched, and her lips were tightly compressed.
- With lips tightly compressed, he went out and locked the door behind him.
- His mouth was set in a straight, grim line, lips tightly compressed.
- When he rose, his lips were tightly compressed and his face was pale.
- Tightly compressed as they were, the Makedones could not block them all and the points plunged home between their shields.
- Then I put on a net, to keep the hair tightly compressed.
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