All 3 Uses of
taut
in
A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
- Their stern faces didn't brighten any but they seemed to become less taut, as if some great need had been partly satisfied.†
Story 2. *
- When Mrs. Pritchard saw signs and omens, she exposed them calmly for the figments of imagination that they were, but this afternoon her nerves were taut and she said, "Now I've had about enough of this.†
Story 7.
- She stood taut, listening, and could just catch in the distance a few wild high shrieks of joy as if the prophets were dancing in the fiery furnace, in the circle the angel had cleared for them.†
Story 7.
Definition:
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(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension