He was stretched tight and hard against the front of his own body.

Our resources are going to be stretched tight as it is.

Police resources are stretched tight as a result of the government's budget cuts, he added.

We're stretched tight and can't keep up with the activity, to be honest.

Every nerve in my body was stretched tight and burning.

The skin there was stretched tight over her growing womb.

His fingers felt the size of sausages, the skin stretched tight.

She wished her voice didn't sound so stretched tight and breathless.

But he said that the cloth was not stretched tight enough to keep out the poisonous air.

Nerves are stretched tighter in the financial services and construction industries.

You got your finger on the trigger, nerves stretched tight, eyes moving.

In the wan light his skin was stretched tight, gray and shiny.

If it were possible, the skin on Puller's face seemed to stretch tighter.

The sail stretches tight like a bubble ready to burst.

The letters of his name are stretched tight across his shoulders.

Then he put his head back, so that his throat stretched tight.

It was puffed up, with the skin stretched tight, like a drum.

His skin was stretched tight against the bones of his face.

His voice was stretched tight, but no tighter than Kirk's nerves.

Cloth stretched tight across a woman's hips had never helped a man concentrate on his work.

He rolled up the excess on the sides of his head so the shirt stretched tight.

Few things are easier than to punch a hole in a sheet of paper if it is stretched tight.