tightening

How To Use tightening In A Sentence

• Begin by tightening your buttocks and lifting your hips off the floor.
• Perhaps the minister should be praised for tightening the regime? Times, Sunday Times
• He tugged at the neck of his turtleneck sweater feeling like it was a noose tightening with each attack.
• Margins are tightening and growth slowing to the levels of more mature markets.
• Prospects for the company remain good, as an inevitable tightening of the public purse looms. Times, Sunday Times
• In this case the ensuing negotiations serve to signal at least short-term lenience and the relaxing - but at least the non-tightening - of sanctions. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
• The F.W. Woolworth Company reported profit margins of 20 percent but actually lowered the wages of salesgirls in its stores, citing the need for belt tightening.
• In a letter to the Super Committee, Congressman Howard Berman D-CA, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote, In this period of belt-tightening and economic uncertainty, some seem to think that foreign assistance is a luxury we can no longer afford. Regan Hofmann: How President Obama Makes Love, Not War, by Pledging to End AIDS
• The growth of China's massive economy is beginning to slow as stimulus funds peter out and aggressive monetary tightening measures take effect.
• That ribbon of disquiet had knotted itself about her, tightening around her stomach which suddenly felt overfull of coffee and food. COFFIN IN FASHION