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Sentences ending with tightened

She glanced at the white petticoat on the chair, and her lips tightened. [11]
A shadow swept over it; his lips tightened. [11]
Her grasp on my hand tightened. [9]
With his gray glance cold on the Mormons, with the restive bit-champing of the horses, with Jane failing to repress her mounting agitations, with Venters standing pale and still, the tension of the moment tightened. [13]
The Governor frowned, and the skin of his cheeks tightened. [11]
She turned pale and her lips tightened. [11]

Short sentences using tightened

I tightened it the more. [9]
Ferrol's fingers tightened, pressed inwards. [11]
Her fingers tightened on his. [11]
He tightened his lips. [9]

More example sentences with the word tightened in them

Think what it would be if the grasp were tightened so that no breath of air could enter your panting chest! [6]
Finally she gave up the unavailing struggle, cooled her burning face with cold water, and tightened the straps of her sandals to go to the temple; near the god himself she hoped she might in some degree recover the peace she could not find here. [10]
Unconsciously she began to stroke Lise's hand, and presently it turned and tightened on her own. [9]
His thin lips tightened, his narrow forehead seemed to grow narrower, and his very cassock appeared to contract austerely on his figure as he talked to the refugee of misfortune. [11]
Unwillingly her hand tightened under his, and her blood beat faster and her color came and went as they two moved as one. [9]
His cool mood tightened under grip of excitement as he reflected that, whoever the approaching riders were, they could not be friends. [13]
The engineer's fingers tightened on the knife. [11]
Suddenly her hand tightened on mine. [9]
She stood with tightened lips, during the Apostles' Creed, listening to his voice as it rose, strong and unfaltering, above the murmur of the congregation. [9]
Madelinette glanced at the pistol, her lips tightened, and she shuddered. [11]
Sophie tried to take off her sunbonnet with one hand, but the knot tightened, and it tipped back on her head, giving her a piquant air. [11]
Byng had only seen Al'mah twice since the day when she first came to his rooms, and not at all during the past two years, save at the opera, where she tightened the cords of captivity to her gifts around her admirers. [11]
The noose was round the horse's neck, and in another instant was tightened so as almost to stop his breath. [6]
When the most pardonable of gossips, the Regimental Surgeon, asked him on his way home what he thought of Ferrol, he shrugged his shoulders, tightened his lips again, and said: "A polite, designing heretic. [11]
Her hands tightened on the rail; suddenly she let it go, and led the way toward the unfrequented district of the south side. [9]
As he thought of that one price his lips tightened, his brow clouded, his eyes half closed with shame. [11]
But the thought of my old grandfather tightened my heart. [9]
Napoleon, by dint of certain screws which he tightened on his Catholic Majesty, King Charles of Spain, in the Treaty of San Ildefonso on the 1st of October, 1800, got his plaything. [9]
Even with this light sketching of the event she could not avoid a retrospective pang of apprehension, and the tightened grasp of his hand was as if she were holding him fast from that and all other peril. [4]
Mr. Duncan had jumped up from his seat beside the door, and Mr. Worthington, his face anything but impassive, tightened his hold on the congressman's arm. [9]
Chester tightened up his reins so suddenly that his horse reared, while Jethro calmly climbed into the seat beside him and they drove off. [9]
The muscles in his face tightened, and deepened the lines about his mouth, and a fire was lighted about his eyes. [9]
His lips tightened, his face hardened. [11]
Her lips tightened, her face paled. [11]
Fatigue stole over her at last; her grasp relaxed, tightened, relaxed again, and they slept side by side. [12]
Once or twice he trembled, for he was worn and tired; but he remembered the last words of Tang-a-Dahit, and his fingers tightened their hold. [11]
But as his fingers tightened on the little engine of death, from the words which had been ringing in his brain came the flash of a revelation: ". [11]
Fully determined on extreme measures, he tightened the girdle which held his chiton above his hips and once more went out into the night to judge by the stars what hour it was. [10]
For an instant Eldon Parr, as he stared at the clergyman, tightened his lips,--lips that seemed peculiarly formed for compression. [9]
Then, like the cracking of a great drover's whip, a shot rang out in the stillness, and my hands tightened over the rifle-stock. [9]
Dicky was patient, but as the days went by and nothing came of all his searching, his lips tightened and his eyes became more restless. [11]
Lassiter must be busily engaged, thought Jane, and no chill trembled over her, no blanching tightened her skin. [13]
The corners tightened around Madame's mouth. [11]
The way the apprentice craned his neck, and tightened the forehead over his large, protuberant eyes, showed his intense curiosity, but the face was implacable. [11]
My chest tightened, and I sped along the ranks to Harrod's company and caught Tom by the wrist. [9]

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