An already close-knit family, the fear and the waiting have brought them even closer, she said.

They are a close-knit family living a happy life, setting an example for the entire village.

In a way it was a kind of close-knit family.

But this created a major problem in the close-knit family.

The woman said they had always been a close-knit family.

James was the second of six children and enjoyed a close-knit family.

And yet her greatest fantasy was having a close-knit, large family like she'd never had.

With their young parents, they are a happy and close-knit family.

"We are a very close-knit family, and since I became ill last year she has called me almost every day."

We were never a close-knit family in the first place.

He was a former professional hockey player from a tight-knit family in Quebec.

She's a devout Muslim and still lives at home with her tight-knit family.

The loss of just one of them was like a death in a tight-knit family.

Alma is 12 years old and comes from a tight-knit Hispanic family.

Both were under twenty and came from tight-knit rural families.

Denise describes a tight-knit family where style grew out of substance.

The office in the 50s was "a small, tight-knit family of rather eccentric women.

However, no one in this tight-knit family is complaining.

Friends said he and his wife thought their infant daughter should grow up in the company of their tight-knit family.

But the battle to achieve that tight-knit extended family is not easy.