tautin a sentence
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The string is pulled taut.taut = tight
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It is a taut, nerve-racking action thriller.taut = tense
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She fell six feet before the rope snapped taut and prevented her death.taut = tight
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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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He pedaled as fast as he could, his arms taut and his legs burning. (source)taut = tense
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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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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)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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His leg muscles were taut now. (source)taut = tight
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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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I realized that his sunglasses had melted against his face, and that the tautness of his skin was, in fact, the result of his whole face being swollen—his whole face was a tight, smooth blister, which gave me the impression that the terrific heat he'd been exposed to had been generated from inside his head.† (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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He stood there, tall, broad-shouldered, his muscles taut under his T-shirt and his eyes glittering like ice. (source)
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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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