English example sentences with "tightening"

A fiscal tightening policy is being enacted.

Interest rates will rise due to monetary tightening.

"Sometimes it seems, Tom, that we're the only reasonable people over here." "You're right, Mary. However sad it is, we're surrounded by idiots alone, and their ring is inexorably tightening."

These screws need tightening.

There is little doubt that the tightening of an already stripped system will have dramatic consequences for industry and municipalities in rural areas.

Layla stood on the gallows, crying, as a man was slowly tightening the noose around her neck.

Sami is tightening his cymbals.

Yanni is tightening the bolt clockwise.

By any measure, the president's first days in office have been a whirlwind featuring numerous executive orders on trade, healthcare, cutting government regulations and, most controversially, tightening immigration.

The planned tightening of the laws governing the right to demonstrate was struck down following widespread protests.

Have you tried tightening the packing nut on the faucet?