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tight-knit

[ tahyt-nit ]

adjective

  1. well-organized and integrated.


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Example Sentences

A few years passed, and La Banda Picasso remained tight knit but for a few members, such as Pieret, who left France.

This development has not been embraced by everyone in her tight-knit Orthodox community.

Broadly speaking, Mormons are tight-knit, and accepted minority group in the United Kingdom and Europe.

For Vinterberg, it seems, tight-knit families are his preferred milieu.

Charleston, the town where Gandee lived, is a small, tight-knit community.

His well-built, tight-knit figure gave one the impression that he was even stronger than he looked.

The person I saw was none of this; for he was not large in stature, having a figure tight-knit even to slenderness.

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