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
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
Then a net of rough-fibered rope was flung about him, and he felt it draw tight as the winged beasts lifted him up and out into the void.
From The Finding of Haldgren by Diffin, Charles Willard
With an army such as that which Gordon had under his control, it does not do to draw tight the reins of discipline too suddenly.
From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Churchill, Seton
