But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tight ly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution. They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tight ly, they cut the stay lace in two. The video is accompanied by a photograph of a young black girl wrapped tight ly in Kevlar, and a pledge card asking people to vote.
She folded them tight ly in a handkerchief, and thrust the parcel as far as her arm could reach between the mattress and the bed. Her thin and narrow hands held the balcony railing rather tight ly. I tore it open and found, wrapped tight ly about three twenty-dollar gold pieces, an unsigned note from MacRae.
He did not say a word for an instant, for his lips were pressed so tight ly together, that they were a white line. You had tied me down too tight ly, my Barbiche; my instructions were to obtain a meeting at any price.
In addition to the idioms beginning with tight. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! Older Slang. The shirt fit tight across the shoulders.
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She wrapped the present and tied it with ribbon. Wrap the chicken in foil and cook it for two hours. B2 to cover someone with a piece of material in order to protect them:.
She wrapped the baby in a blanket. He wrapped a towel around his shoulders. Take your purchases to the sales clerk , and he will wrap them for you. Once wrapped, the gross weight of the package is 2 kg. The package was wrapped in plain brown paper.
She came downstairs after her shower , wrapped in a towel. His head was wrapped in swathes of bandages. Enclosing, surrounding and immersing.
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Wrapping, packing and loading. People were selling wraps of cocaine and marijuana on the street. They found 13 heroin wraps in his pocket. Synonym bindle. Coverings and layers. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: General and miscellaneous containers.
Drugs - general words. Idioms it's a wrap. She showed off her baby bump for the first time in a sleek grey wrap dress. She wore a white , knee-length skirt and matching wrap top , teamed with high- heeled cowboy boots.
She's wearing a black scoop-necked T-shirt and a simple , black ankle-length wrap skirt. The wrap top is fantastic because it accentuates a small waist and gives a hint of a cleavage. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Clothing - general words.
She wrapped the present and tied it with a ribbon. If you wrap yourself in this blanket , you will stay warm. If you wrap your fingers or arms around something, you hold it tightly :. She sat back in her chair and wrapped her arms around her knees.
Idiom wrap someone around your little finger. Wrap is material that is used to cover or protect something, such as food :. She wrapped the gift in tissue paper and a red bow. Phrasal verb wrap sth up. The company decided to serve hamburgers in wraps made mainly of paper. The firm kept its troubles under wraps. Apple took the wraps off the new model of the iMac yesterday. See also bubble wrap. Examples of wrap. The samples on which water potential had been measured were removed from the chambers, wrapped in aluminium foil and frozen in liquid nitrogen.
From the Cambridge English Corpus. The building's concrete shell is insulated on the exterior and wrapped with extruded clay planks. The plastic scintillator was wrapped in aluminium foil except for the side facing the window of the photomultiplier. A wrapped operation also calls the old operation, and wraps the result into a node with a new identity tag. A version is wrapped with an identity tag.
The rhetoric of anti-iconoclasm and anti-utopianism, deployed by the domesticated pragmatist, wraps itself in the disguise of humanistic scruple and skepticism. To record pressures, these arrays were wrapped tightly around the residuum and interposed between it and a standard hard plastic socket. The editors move on more briefly to methane, and then to nitrous oxide, before wrapping up with some thoughts on interactions. He went right up on the top, wrapped himself in his sleeping skins and pretended to be asleep.
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