How to pronounce “tighten”(verb) in English

They tighten focus.

We tightened them up as much as possible.

But you don't tighten them so much that the oxygen can't escape.

And your muscles tighten and tense so you can get up that tree.

It'll tighten the circle of karma and make it impossible to pretend that we are separate

1943 the Germans tighten up their procedures and there were no more

Basically they tightened their control as well, didn't they?

kind of tightening in the body so it's a whole body set of symptoms

and my own throat tightened up.

And my own throat tightened up.

But at the national championships they tighten nets and they use brand-new rubber so the ball comes off really

as the grip of the taunting mob tightened around us, we circled each other, the requisite trash talk spewing from the ogre's crooked smile.

The tendons in my arms tightened, pulsed.

I don't think the rope even tightened because I always try to not bother the people that I'm roped up with so I usually can even while walking

Then the slack in the cord tightened as my rocketing mass stretched it to its limit, and I shot skyward and bridgeward

on me and and I I tightened up I did i' I'd be be standing behind those doors

What they do in the national championships is they actually tighten the nets to the point where it's basically a hitting a concrete wall

And the whole idea here is to try to tighten up the sugar control so that patients are at less risk of getting

And the reverse side of that equation is we try to tighten up the control as the patients get much more of this condition, which

But, as we tighten up the control, then patients are more and more at risk of getting lows.

So yeah, control was tightened, but there were also other ramifications as well.

So what if we spent more money and tightened that up and then made these cool, extraordinary robots that could repel, in rock climber fashion,

to sign the laws in place in the United States that tightened our regulation of our oceans and made us one of

The mind tightens and narrows its focus, a fearful reaction.

happened for you in your body anybody else my chest tightened my chest tightened as I said my desire kind the

consume rather than save -- to enlarge their debts instead of tightening the belt.

So lift up your shoulders, tighten them, breathe out and relax.

And when you put the rings on, you tighten them enough, so that they meet resistance, they're fully on there.

over time with this kind of technology will be enormously informative and allow us to tighten up our control, minimize the stress on the cells,

The longer she walked, the more her chest tightened.

the rich, and the Federal Reserve sort of tightened their money policy.

And amazingly, within that range, things begin to tighten up.

We know from these curves for example, as we try to tighten up the blood sugar control, we can definitely reduce the risk of complications

It gets a little bit looser for a second, and then it'll tighten back up.

Well, norepinephrine and dopamine, they tighten focus.

So for instance I talk about the emotions that tend to get clogged and kind of tighten us up so that we

So I go through a range of other emotions that tend to attack us as we get older and that severely tighten and

Yeah Take my badge but my heart remains Loving you, baby child Tighten up on your reigns You're runnin' wild, runnin' wild

But its external rotation is how you tighten a screw, drive the screw in.

I represent an independent consortium of designers and engineers that are working with Google to freshen up and tighten up some of its loose projects on the fringes.

little slot holds the nut in there so you can just turn it it goes together you tighten it down with an allen wrench

If you touch your thumb to your index finger, that muscle starts to tighten up a little bit.

Fight, flight, freeze-- tightening your muscles when you're scared-- or fainting where you're totally collapsing.

Roy Spence: And people, I do this and people start un tightening their tie, but it's true.

going through 1984 periods and Brave New World periods, which in Chinese someone is talking about tightening and loosening of political controls, so I said 1989, when there was a

His thick red tie hanging loosely from his collar, begging to be tightened.

snare other end until she and Zara could see on the monitor that the lasso had tightened around the base of the pop by

When we're in a conflict, our primate history, we tend to tighten the back of our neck and our jaw and hunch our shoulders.

So that kind of planning, I think for the last maybe about four books, has really helped me tighten the narrative thread.