tight embrace
Example Sentences
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There the pair shared a tight embrace – a goodbye of sorts.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
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
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
The institutional bureaucracies of museums and art schools that had grown up with it gathered the politics into a tight embrace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
The elf collapsed next to Wielaf and pulled him into a tight embrace.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
