airtight case

Example Sentences

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“Just because you find that life’s not fair, it / doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it,” Matilda sings in “Naughty,” brilliantly advancing an airtight case for a child’s revenge.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Mungeer, who is not involved in the investigation, said troopers were likely keeping releasing as little information as needed "because they want to have an airtight case."

From Fox News • Feb. 22, 2022

Clearly, this is a very airtight case for re-election.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2020

This seems to me to be a fairly airtight case that Amazon will come out of the pandemic stronger than before.

From The Verge • Apr. 16, 2020

When Penkovsky went to trial, the KGB had assembled an airtight case, complete with pictures of him working with stolen military files.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau