Tighten in a sentence as a verb

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

Okay, we should probably tighten it up a bit, but I say we take this show on the road!

Before you pull the trigger, tighten that rope around your neck or take those pills think of your loved once.

I warned him not to use his adjustable wrench on the tightening nuts.

Let it slip with what little time is left, examine post facto how it got through, tighten the cracks, explain it to the punters.

Control-freak managers and petty tyrants are good at that, because you can trust them to tighten down bolts and yell at people.

It falls into the same bucket as "with all due respect..."> "Most of it was about past transgressions and what they've done to tighten the brand.

You just slip it around the handlebar under the collar there and it will open up the collar to where you can tighten it again.

My favorite quote from the article:In the real world, if you build a bookshelf and forget to tighten one of the screws all the way, it does not burn down your house

Once too much investment has been made in the details of the protocol, things will necessarily tighten up. Makes loads of sense to open the dialog for the protocol early.

Can you use a better algorithm, more compact data structure, improve memory locality, or tighten the loop?

I will be trying to tighten up the screws inside, and making sure any connectors are seated properly, but sending it back for a replacement if it that doesn't work.

Chen thinks that the wrinkles have a simpler cause: when fingers are immersed in hot water, the blood vessels tighten and the tissue shrinks relative to the overlying skin.

Most likely, a bunch of investors will end up suffering losses in the face of "down rounds", early stage investors will tighten in the face of concerns regarding the late stage investors, and the bubble will burst.

Muni bond crisis is overdone and spreads tighten, regained interest in fixed income for the retirement investment crowd as it becomes clear no inflation is imminent drive rates down.

Would it be better for them to immediately crumble when big ol' capitalist America tries to tighten some screws?Maybe it provides morale for the average Ecuadorian, some faith and pride in their government.

Or has the system itself grown evil enough that people view their obligation to their fellow citizen more important than their obligation to the structures created by those citizens?I think as government continues to tighten the screws on society, more and more people are going to rat out the system.

And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you...Consequently, if there is no intention to tighten that knot and thereby to doom the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, then let us not only relax the forces pulling on the ends of the rope, let us take measures to untie that knot.

Tighten definitions

verb

make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"

See also: fasten

verb

become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened"

verb

restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"

See also: stiffen constrain

verb

narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"

See also: reduce