Carefully shake off excess moisture and pack tightly in a strong box.
Check boxes and lids to ensure they're still tightly sealed.
The floors are locally quarried slate, hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns.
Very little odor will be released from tightly covered storage structures.
The aphid feeds within the whorl of the upper leaves, causing the leaf to remain tightly rolled.
1.1With very firm or strict control.
the government tightly controlled the movement of money
public companies are tightly regulated
Example sentencesExamples
Should science be controlled more tightly?
The author's study is more tightly restricted to a single saint, John the Evangelist.
The idea was to test his exchange rate hypothesis in a tightly specified model.
All minerals are regulated very tightly in the blood.
How apt that such a rigorous game as chess would play a role in this tightly controlled home.
1.2In a disciplined or well coordinated manner.
tightly choreographed dance moves
tightly reasoned arguments
Example sentencesExamples
The San Francisco firm cut its campus housing teeth on a pair of tightly budgeted graduate residences at the university.
It is useful to have such an overview in one volume, though I regret it was not more tightly edited.
Legumes generally grow for some time past the corn harvest, and can take land away from the tightly scheduled sequential cropping typical of Asian agriculture.
Their design process was tightly coordinated with construction management, including repeated cost estimates and subsequent adjustments.
The painting is tightly designed, with an emphasis on line and a pale, fresco-like surface.
Definition of tightly in US English:
tightly
adverbˈtītlēˈtaɪtli
1Closely and firmly.
my hand gripped tightly onto the knife
my eyes were tightly shut
a tightly sealed container
Example sentencesExamples
Check boxes and lids to ensure they're still tightly sealed.
Carefully shake off excess moisture and pack tightly in a strong box.
Very little odor will be released from tightly covered storage structures.
The aphid feeds within the whorl of the upper leaves, causing the leaf to remain tightly rolled.
The floors are locally quarried slate, hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns.
1.1With very firm or strict control.
the government tightly controlled the movement of money
public companies are tightly regulated
Example sentencesExamples
Should science be controlled more tightly?
All minerals are regulated very tightly in the blood.
The idea was to test his exchange rate hypothesis in a tightly specified model.
How apt that such a rigorous game as chess would play a role in this tightly controlled home.
The author's study is more tightly restricted to a single saint, John the Evangelist.
1.2In a disciplined or well coordinated manner.
tightly choreographed dance moves
tightly reasoned arguments
Example sentencesExamples
The San Francisco firm cut its campus housing teeth on a pair of tightly budgeted graduate residences at the university.
It is useful to have such an overview in one volume, though I regret it was not more tightly edited.
The painting is tightly designed, with an emphasis on line and a pale, fresco-like surface.
Their design process was tightly coordinated with construction management, including repeated cost estimates and subsequent adjustments.
Legumes generally grow for some time past the corn harvest, and can take land away from the tightly scheduled sequential cropping typical of Asian agriculture.