draw tight
Example Sentences
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Helen Sung/Benny Green On two different new trio records, two jazz pianists in early middle age with fluent and streamlined styles draw tight lines around jazz from the 1940s to the ’60s.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011
On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a thrill in watching a corral full of wild horses milling round and round, dodging the whispering ropes that writhed here and there overhead to settle and draw tight over some unlucky head.
From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto
Begin a plain shuttle oval; 3 D join to the 3rd L of the last plain shuttle oval; 1 D, L, 3 D draw tight.
From The Bath Tatting Book by Anonymous
"I've got him," breathed the boy, feeling the line draw tight under his hand.
From The Pony Rider Boys in Montana Or, the Mystery of the Old Custer Trail by Patchin, Frank Gee
