Either the seat belt does not fit, or it is painfully tight and you are too embarrassed to ask for an attachment.

Frank still had a painfully tight grip on his hand.

Ebony brows drew down to meet in a painfully tight vee.

The painfully tight weight in her chest released and the tears came.

The fingers of her right hand were twisting painfully tight ringlets in her hair.

He took her by the arm, his grip painfully tight.

There was no pretense now, for his hand squeezed painfully tight.

"I just needed to make a call," Cindy pleaded as she wormed in the painfully tight bindings.

Donal put out his hand to her and the childish fingers gripped it, painfully tight.

He had one of those skull-like faces on which the skin seems stretched painfully tight.