All 6 Uses of
taut
in
Babbitt
- Himself a pious motorist, Babbitt cranked with the unseen driver, with him waited through taut hours for the roar of the starting engine, with him agonized as the roar ceased and again began the infernal patient snap-ah-ah—a round, flat sound, a shivering cold-morning sound, a sound infuriating and inescapable.†
Chpt 1
- He lay on the sleeping-porch and watched the winter sun slide along the taut curtains, turning their ruddy khaki to pale blood red.†
Chpt 18 *
- He had, doubtless from some story-book, pictured Paul's trial as a long struggle, with bitter arguments, a taut crowd, and sudden and overwhelming new testimony.†
Chpt 22
- The young negro bootblack hummed "The Camp Meeting Blues" and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so taut at each stroke that it snapped like a banjo string.†
Chpt 24
- The taut muscles of her youth were loose and drooping.†
Chpt 29
- The three Vigilantes, formidable in their righteousness, stared at him in a taut silence.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension