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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    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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    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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