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Sentence count:122+7Posted:2016-08-04Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: firmrigidstifftensetightSimilar words: autoautonomyauthorityautomaticauthorizeautomobileautomaticallyMeaning: [tɔːt]  adj. 1. pulled or drawn tight 2. subjected to great tension; stretched tight. 
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91) She stopped and slipped aside into the shadows, every sense alert and taut.
92) Melanie hung onto it as life line, straining , pulling it taut, slackening it, tearing it.
93) In this taut, subtle novel Hawthorne solves almost all his problems.
94) She was thin without the taut look of wiry people.
95) He lay on the sleeping - porch and watched the winter sun slide along the taut curtains.
96) Now they began to whirl around on the spot. Not with the easy grace of the Sufi dancers I'd seen in Istanbul, but with arms taut and fists clenched.
97) A working space elevator, decades in the future, would climb an ultra-strong cable with a mass on the end, kept taut by the Earth's rotation like a yo-yo spun around over a person's head.
98) Scarlett's taut nerves almost cracked as a sudden noise sounded in the underbrush near them.
99) The gray-brown tuft of a tail has the screwed-tight appearance of a taut knot.
100) The white canvas cover on the Conestoga wagon protected the freight from inclement weather; it was stretched taut over a series of wooden hoops that arched over the wagon bed.
101) The new inspiration brought more taut and tailored clothes but above all the drapes, which ended in folds like a horn of plenty at short skirt hems.
102) It was almost as if I was a taut rope in a tug-of-war being pulled in both directions.
103) Pull the line taut to prevent it from knotting up.
104) Even things considered safe at a children's slumber party can trip Beijing's increasingly taut security wires.
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105) It was dusk: the contrasts of the colors were fading into a vibrant chiaroscuro; the lunar fields and woods were now just barely visible contours on the taut surface of the shining globe.
106) I gave one desperate pull at the taut tow - rope to bring the boat alongside.
107) Make coxal muscle taut forcibly, the hand is stuck on ham, several 3 when ham is put down, several 4 when unbend of ability to walk, breath wants even.
108) Karen pulled the bandolier's straps taut Lead on, hero, she told hello m.
109) FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is a taut, gripping police thriller, brimming with gunplay, explosions and perilous stunt work that leaves its audience breathless and exhilarated.
110) It is distinct from tightrope walking in that the line is not held rigidly taut—it is instead dynamic, stretching and bouncing like a large rubber band.
111) He bandaged, his hands moving very fast and the bandage coming taut and sure.
112) Such is not the case with Martin Scorsese's taut psychological thriller "Shutter Island, " a movie that keeps you guessing to the end and then -- miraculously -- makes the guessing pay off.
113) This misshapen ogrelike brute has taut flesh with a claylike texture.
114) The loin is taut and lean, narrower than the rib cage, and with a slight tuck - up.
115) The country was taut and excited like an athletic competitor at the end of his training.
116) Taut and controlled, with no overhang or bloat, the Fontaine II's quick and rhythmic bass response did a consummate job of propelling the music forward.
117) Zhou, as always, was electric , quick , taut , deft, humorous.
118) This was vintage Lauren, both in the finesse of his work and in the dark romance of the Edwardian era, which brought puffed shoulders on taut velvet jackets as well as the dark flowers.
119) When muscles are taut or cold there is more chance of injury or strain.
120) That summer she had shed the weight gained during pregnancy, her body was trim and taut.
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