The aim of this paper is to show that almost greedy bases induce tighter embeddings in superreflexive Banach spaces than in general Banach spaces. More specifically, we show that an almost greedy basis in a superreflexive Banach space $$\mathbb{X}$$ induces embeddings that allow squeezing $$\mathbb{X}$$ between two superreflexive Lorentz sequence spaces that are close to each other in the sense that they have the same fundamental function.