Tightened is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TIGHTENED in dictionary:

VERB:
• TIGHTEN, to make tight
• make or become tight or tighter

Words related to TIGHTENED

tighten11 tightening15 tightens12

Words that contain TIGHTENED

retightened16 overtightened21

How to use TIGHTENED in a sentence

• Four German attacks were beaten back on the 26th, and the following day the French advanced south and west of Vaux and tightened their grip on the fortress.
• He tightened his grip on the rifle and amused himself with drawing beads on stumps and bright bits of foliage, from time to time.
• As the cords tightened and shoots of torturing pain ran up the arm, the huge body of the man writhed.
• A number of minor things were done, and every nut and bolt tried and tightened.
• Then I took a strain on it and tightened it under his arms.
• Even the officer, trained in a strict school to repress his emotions, tightened his lips, and then opened them to emit a relieved gasp.
• They sought the arms of his chair and the fingers tightened.
• Aldous resumed his loud whistling as he tightened up the saddle-girths, and killed time in half a dozen other ways.
• As he rubbed his shoulder his eyes followed the butler up the stairs and his lips tightened.
• And with a curse that sounded in his ears like the snarl of a beast, Winthrop Adams Endicott tightened his grip upon the revolver and headed the horse up the steep ascent.
• The flat muscle-bands across his broad chest slackened and tightened as his arms swung.
• His eyes fell and for a moment his lids were unsteady, but the color surged back into his cheeks and his lips tightened.
• Powder-barrels should never be opened except when required for use, as grains of powder falling between the staves would prevent their being tightened.
• Cumshaw made no reply to that, but the corners of his mouth tightened as if he suspected some hidden meaning beneath that smooth remark.
• Instantly her greeting died upon her lips, which tightened ominously.
• He tightened the clasped hold of his arms about his knees and dropped his head upon them.
• The latter, less fortunate, caught his foot in the line, stumbled, tightened the line and brought the shot-bag hopping down the stairs.
• Dinner came, and the ceremonial decidedly tightened.
• It was the same car, and this time the old man tightened his reins a little and sent his horses speeding ahead.
• Just as we pour out into it, there is the clash of a closing gate and a tightened chain.
• His lips tightened into a fine, cruel line, his eyes grew almost black and had a queer, Chinese slant to them.
• His uniform tightened as he swelled with the importance of his mission.
• Her clasp tightened upon it as his hands touched hers.
• At length the rope tightened, and to the end they attached the ladder.
• He fidgeted about, examining his rifle and pistols, tightened his belt, and looked in the direction of his horse.
• The common dangers of the wilderness life tightened the racial and religious bonds that held them together.
• The muscles in his cheeks tightened and his eyes narrowed unpleasantly.
• I was jerked back as the rope tightened between the boats.
• They saw one class rising from beneath them to power, and they tightened the chains on the other.
• As they topped the brow of the slope, the professor tightened the reins a little.

Similar words containing TIGHTEN without suffix ed

tighten11 tightens12 retighten13 tightener13 retightens14 tighteners14 tightening15 overtighten18 retightened16 tightenings16 overtightens19 retightening17 overtightened21 overtightening22

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