tight-knit

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• And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.

• Because of the thinness of the air, there is a very tight margin between the correct and incorrect airspeeds, as little as 50 mph.

• Weirich said whenever she saw Fox, she was wearing something too tight.

• Major League Baseball, though, is still being tight-lipped about what the end of the embargo might mean for the sport.

• There were little blond girls in knit hats next to elderly African American women hobbling on canes.

• "It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.

• His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.

• She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.

• It is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.

• Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.