tight embrace
Example Sentences
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Back at Hamidia Hospital, Alzain, whose left eye was operated on after he lost his vision, sits inside the tight embrace of his mother.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025
Once Chantel returns home and finishes Sydney’s braids, T.J. sends the chef off with a tight embrace and the ultimate compliment.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2025
It casually wraps an airy open terrace glimpsed on an upper level, while the adjacent sculpture compresses space in a tight embrace, the sky glimpsed through a narrow aperture at the top.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022
All the logic and desire that guides a female frog to a specific pond vanishes once she arrives, and a melee ensues as males race to cling to her in a tight embrace called amplexus.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022
She engulfed my entire body in her hug, folding me into her chest in a tight embrace.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
