Sample Sentences for
taut
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    One hand monitors the taut sails.
    taut = pulled or drawn tight
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    The tendons in his neck stand out like taut cables.  (source)
    taut = stretched tightly
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    Punk, punk, punk, her needle broke the taut circle.  (source)
    taut = stretched tight
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    Even the muscles in his forearm are taut, defined.  (source)
    taut = tight
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    He was an elegant young man, tautly muscled, with a shock of supernaturally orange hair.†  (source)
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    I put a hand on his arm, surprised at the tautness of his body, like a wolf raring for a fight.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He would finger himself here and there, trying to make sure that it was not an illusion that his muscles were growing rounder and his skin tauter.  (source)
    tauter = tighter (sagging less)
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    He pedaled as fast as he could, his arms taut and his legs burning.  (source)
    taut = tense
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    Though tautly stretched at the end of the boat, it sagged a little in the middle; it made for three or four toilsome, bouncy steps.†  (source)
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    Annie dear"—extending a hand to Anne de Larmessin, stiff blonde hair, stiff taffeta dress, wrinkled neckline that did not match the tautness of her chiseled face—"listen, it's been absolute heaven...do you suppose we can get a family snap?†  (source)
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    And once more there was silence; and the expectancy, momentarily relaxed, was stretched again, tauter, tauter, almost to the tearing point.†  (source)
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    His leg muscles were taut now.  (source)
    taut = tight
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    His mother's hair was pulled back tautly and a vein was pulsing in her temple and her eyes were red-rimmed from crying.†  (source)
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