Tighter is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tighter in a sentence
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Tighter meaning
comparative form of tight: more tight
Using Tighter
- The main meaning on this page is: comparative form of tight: more tight
- In the example corpus, tighter often appears in combinations such as: and tighter, tighter and, for tighter.
Context around Tighter
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tighter
- In this selection, "tighter" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gets, winds, becoming, material, seal and limits stand out and add context to how "tighter" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include behavior put tighter liquor license and borrowing by tighter rules on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tighter" sits close to words such as bacterial, barrow and caregivers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tighter
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The schedule is becoming tighter and tighter. (7 words)
And the rotation only gets tighter in the playoffs. (9 words)
But the tighter the vetting, the smaller the pool of sponsors. (11 words)
Australia boosted its annual migration numbers last year to help key businesses recruit staff to fill shortages after the Covid-19 pandemic brought tighter border controls, and kept foreign students and workers out of the country for nearly two years. (40 words)
As the three become entangled in a whodunnit wrapped in a Faustian pact, their strange triangle winds tighter and tighter to devastating effect for all those caught in the deadly web of blackmail and betrayal. (35 words)
Analysts say the fundraising spree is due to the market's offshore designation, which makes it an elegant alternative for local vehicles frozen out of onshore borrowing by tighter rules on their finances since 2021. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
That storm gets tighter and tighter and if you’re not doing stuff the storm doesn’t have landfall, so it doesn’t slow the wind down.
As the three become entangled in a whodunnit wrapped in a Faustian pact, their strange triangle winds tighter and tighter to devastating effect for all those caught in the deadly web of blackmail and betrayal.
The schedule is becoming tighter and tighter.
Additionally, we have implemented tighter material and production planning processes to improve inventory control.
Additionally, you can try wearing the earbuds more deeply in your ear to create a tighter seal and prevent sound leakage.
After re-recording it at A&M Studios in Los Angeles, U2 thought it sounded “tighter and more accurate”, but according to The Edge, “it lacked feel”.
Although she said she had never thought about gun laws before, now she says there should be tighter limits.
Analysts say the fundraising spree is due to the market's offshore designation, which makes it an elegant alternative for local vehicles frozen out of onshore borrowing by tighter rules on their finances since 2021.
And the rotation only gets tighter in the playoffs.
As alluded to in the beginning of the paper traditional 60/40 portfolios are vulnerable to the current economic environment of falling inflation and growth with tighter monetary policy.
As such, I believe it makes sense for Fortinet's wide economic moat business model to deserve a premium grade as companies continue consolidating their vendors, given tighter enterprise budgets.
As would be expected with a tighter runtime to the story, much of this is glossed over so that it can focus on ratcheting up the stakes.
Australia boosted its annual migration numbers last year to help key businesses recruit staff to fill shortages after the Covid-19 pandemic brought tighter border controls, and kept foreign students and workers out of the country for nearly two years.
Authorities in Spain’s parched northeast warned Tuesday that and a wide surrounding area that's home to some 6 million people could face even tighter restrictions of water use in the coming months.
Betting on a tighter oil market has been a bad trade for most of this year.
But after bad student behavior put tighter liquor license restrictions on restaurants, Millard said it's become more of a spot for lunch.
But if there are residual savings out there then consumer spending could end up being more resilient, which would justify the market’s belief in Federal Reserve monetary policy staying tighter for longer.
But the tighter the vetting, the smaller the pool of sponsors.
Combined with the excellent capital appreciation from the tighter share counts, we are rating DVN stock as a Buy here.
Competition for their ads will soon get even tighter; Meta Platforms Inc., for instance, plans to eventually introduce advertising to its Twitter clone, Threads.
Common combinations with tighter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and tighter 15×
- tighter and 12×
- for tighter 11×
- tighter than 11×
- be tighter 10×
- the tighter 10×
- much tighter 10×
- even tighter 9×
- tighter restrictions 8×
- to tighter 8×