Thesaurus / tight squeeze
FEEDBACKsynonyms for tight squeeze
synonyms for tight squeeze
- crunch
- box
- clutch
- contingency
- crisis
- difficulty
- emergency
- exigency
- hardship
- juncture
- necessity
- oppression
- pass
- plight
- pressure
- strait
- stress
- tight spot
- turning point
- zero hour
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How to use tight squeeze in a sentence
"It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHis boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENShe took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRIt is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKAs long as an emergency truck could squeeze through at moderate speed, that was enough.
FEE OF THE FRONTIERHORACE BROWN FYFEBefore that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKThis difficulty of making a tight and safe boiler, that puzzled Watt, was moonshine to Trevithick.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKI asked sharply, and MacRae flung the same query over one shoulder as he fumbled at the tight-drawn latigo-knot.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRFrom this point Mr Dean began to pump and squeeze, and Trumps proved worthy of his name in the way he submitted to both processes.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNEIn this day there were some drops of the golden juices—some drops that she must squeeze out, that her thirsty lips must drink.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSWORDS RELATED TO TIGHT SQUEEZE
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