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tight embrace

noun as in bear hug

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Example Sentences

As we said goodbye she gave me a tight embrace and thanked me for my service.

Her hair was disordered, and her face red, and her whole being throbbing with shame, but he still held her in his tight embrace.

Stout arms clipped her knees and swung her off her feet, leaving her body helpless in Victor's tight embrace.

At this kind of fighting, he was more Jack's match and he seized the lad in a tight embrace.

He disappeared again almost immediately and a second time the lad felt himself seized in a tight embrace which drew him under.

It failed to reach the throat it had aimed at, and in a moment the Kangaroo had seized the hound in a tight embrace.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tight embrace, such as: embrace, enfoldment, hug, scissors, and squeeze.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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