tightly drawn
Example Sentences
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His smile is both practiced and ingratiating; his eyes seem darker than this film’s eerily black ocean, like velvet curtains tightly drawn.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024
The same is true of thunderstorms, which can form over tightly drawn areas and miss nearby areas—sometimes within a mile—altogether.
From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2019
At a glance you see a solid black field of tightly drawn vertical graphite lines, with a fringe of stray line-ends at the bottom.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2018
"The terms of reference were much too wide. If they had been more tightly drawn, I think we might have hoped for a much earlier report from them," he said.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2016
She had noted with a passionate joy that the lines of his face were tightly drawn, were even haggard, that his breath came short; in a word, that he suffered.
From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)
