tightknit

/ ˌtaɪtˈnɪt /

adjective

1. closely integrated

   a tightknit community

2. organized carefully and concisely

Example Sentences

Their absence ripped a hole in this tiny, tightknit community, a place that appears frozen in time since the day it came under assault.

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Some of Starbucks’s tightknit alumni offered assistance for those laid off, and others criticized the cuts and closures.

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Valadez invited him to visit her office off the shore of Clear Lake, to her tightknit community where the security guard at the courthouse next door calls entrants “kiddo.”

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In January, Souther performed onstage with the Eagles at Inglewood’s Kia Forum, where Don Henley introduced him as part of the “tightknit community of songwriters and singers” that he and the Eagles’ Glenn Frey would turn to in the ’70s “when we would get stuck on a song or we’d try to start some new material.”

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The incident stunned the small, tightknit community where most everybody knows everybody, Crockett said.

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