1.   Her husband, she says, comes from a very closely knit family and so she continues to feel uneasy.

2.   Not far from the railway line lived a closely knit family, Mr and Mrs Gorman and their only daughter, Marion.

3.   The girls are from a tightly knit Bangladeshi family that adheres to Muslim traditions.

4.   The others, not as fortunate, are abandoned by fearful relatives, a rare situation in a country that traditionally places high value on closely knit families.

5.   The tightly knit family has eight children.

6.   Through prostitution, the boys are able to keep their closely knit family from starving.

7.   When you come across a closely knit family in the United States, you take notice because it is not something you see every day.

8.   The column also carried his gentle, self-deprecating humor evidenced in stories of his close knit family.