Synonym: firm, rigid, stiff, tense, tight. Similar words: auto, autonomy, authority, automatic, authorize, automobile, automatically. Meaning: [tɔːt] adj. 1. pulled or drawn tight 2. subjected to great tension; stretched tight.
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31) Up to this point, Garland has written a taut, finely detailed account of his wanderers.
32) They flowed into the taut nostrils and along the prominent bones in the cheek.
33) She was too wound up, too much on edge, her nerves as taut as violin strings.
34) His muscles, though not as taut as those of a young man, bulged with the effort.
35) The wind filled it and the men drew taut the sheets, but the ship did not move.
36) As they tugged it straight the wind bellied it out, taut as a sail.
37) He was playing with her emotions, stringing them out like a taut band that would snap at the slightest pressure.
38) Even barely touching him, she could feel the taut power of the muscles beneath her hand.
39) A single strand of taut barbed wire was strung along the top of the garden wall.
40) Within a fortnight, Kate was white and taut from lack of sleep and anxiety, but Toby was blooming.
41) Sitting cross legged place a towel behind your neck and hold it taut at each end.
42) Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing, the skin oils rebound in about the same time, too.
43) How about a toaster that clicked because you activated it by twisting a taut timer dial?
44) Keep both legs taut and straight and gently push up with both arms.
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45) In another, an almost transparent green dress is pulled taut over her 34-24-24 curves.
46) Beside him the Empress's face was stretched taut with misery.
47) The result, taut abs, a rock-hard butt and twanging musculature, was still not enough to save her marriage.
48) The steel rope had to be used because a normal tight rope wouldn't keep taut between two unpredictable hot air balloons.
49) Cotton threads expand in the wet which means that the fly, although heavier, becomes more taut and more weatherproof.
50) She was aware of her body, realising that it was taut as a lute string with anticipation.
51) He asked a student to hold a rubber band taut between her hands.
52) The tow rope sprang taut, plucking the dinghy clear as the swell broke, thundering forward on to the waiting coral.
53) Some men get more aroused from lots of moisture, some from dry taut skin stimulation.
54) The skin around the wound grew taut, and shooting pains nearly made Gao Ma cry out.
55) The backs of his thighs were bulging, his hamstrings taut as guy wires.
56) Lightly falling raindrops splashed into her open mouth and eyes, skittering across her taut, shiny face.
57) He looked ... taut, Virginia registered in a detached way.
58) His body remained stiff and taut, even though he wanted to tremble violently.
59) But the writing is not nearly as tight nor as taut as it should be.
60) They appear in health club ads, fit, trim and tanned, with impossibly taut abdomens.