tightly-closed

A touch on his arm made him start and open his tightly-closed eyes.

The enemy had apparently retired into a tightly-closed shell of energy.

Bandages should be changed frequently and thrown away in a tightly-closed bag.

His lungs pulsed, straining for oxygen against his tightly-closed lips.

Is paint kept in tightly-closed metal containers?

There were one or two other cars on the road, but they kept away from each other, staring suspiciously from their tightly-closed windows.

Highly-insulated tightly-closed structure captures delicate sounds and ensures dynamic reproducibility.

When buying broccoli, look for firm, tightly-closed buds and avoid bunches with yellowed flowerets.

Accordingly, (secondary) phosphate is generally only preserved in enclosed spaces, such as a tightly-closed bivalve shell.

The gale blew around the house and rustled its creepers like hair, and the two shuttered upstairs windows looked like tightly-closed eyes.

They both looked up as he entered; his mother still had that tightly-closed expression around her mouth, as if her lips were the opening to a miser's purse, but his father looked less grim.

This morning Mr Cable will sit across from China's commerce minister, Chen Deming, to try to jemmy open a few cracks of opportunity in China's tightly-closed market places at a time when complaints about protectionism are everywhere on the rise.

The bag, one surmises, is to protect one's fingers from the hot metal, but it - as does a tightly-closed pocket or a hand cupped about the device - restricts the flow of oxygen to the handwarmer's heart, a burner operating on refined, vaporized gasoline.