1. Keep the rope taut.

2. The rope was stretched taut.

3. The skin of the drum is taut.

4. Her face was taut and pale.

5. His body was solid and taut.

6. Exercise helps your muscles to stay taut.

7. Her long upper lip is drawn down taut.

8. His new film is a taut suspenseful thriller.

9. He massaged the taut muscles of her neck.

10. The clothes line is pulled taut and secured.

11. It's described here as a taut, psychological thriller.

12. Xiangzi sat down jerkily, his muscles taut. Sentencedict.com

13. Her body went as taut as a bowstring.

14. Some thrust their hands into pockets, faces taut.

15. Ben sat up quickly, his face taut and terrified.

16. Don't allow the reins to slacken, keep them taut.

17. There was a taut edge to Niall 's voice.

18. She began to hear her own taut, shallow breathing.

19. The muscles in his neck were taut and prominent.

20. 1 His new film is a taut suspenseful thriller.

21. The skin of his face felt dry and taut.

22. 23 Ben sat up quickly, his face taut and terrified.

23. Ask a student to hold a rubber band taut between her hands.

24. His latest film was described in today's paper as a taut thriller.

25. All along the wall, bows drew taut and Ballistae creaked and catapults strained

26. He asked a student to hold a rubber band taut between her hands.

27. He kept his eyes on the road ahead, his face taut with concentration.

28. Keep both legs taut and straight and gently push up with both arms.

29. Pull taut and adjust the tab until the strap fits comfortably around your wrist.

30. Preferably, the taut fabric sheet is substantially porous with respect to an acoustic couplant.

31. The new artistic climate found Minton striving to restrain his romanticism beneath taut design.

32. Try to keep the lead taut, as it will help your puppy to learn.

33. Breakneck is a taut thriller, which proves Erica Spindler is still a master of suspense

34. The beds on Disturbed are all out of tune, too taut or too loose.

35. Melanie hung onto it as life line, straining , pulling it taut, slackening it, tearing it.

36. Up to this point, Garland has written a taut, finely detailed account of his wanderers.

37. His face was remarkable: gaunt, wizened and pale, the skin pulled taut across the prominent bones.

38. But the writing is not nearly as tight nor as taut as it should be.

39. She was too wound up, too much on edge, her nerves as taut as violin strings.

40. 19 The gray-brown tuft of a tail has the screwed-tight appearance of a taut knot.

41. The Bigamist is a taut, muscular, controlled picture, and Lupino shapes all three performances with pure mastery

42. She was aware of her body, realising that it was taut as a lute string with anticipation.

43. Weasel, whipped in a taut ball of his longing licked Hilde's obstinate body with yellow gazes.

44. Collodion baby is a transient condition in newborns where they are covered in a taut, shiny membrane

45. If you are trying to keep the balance then the seat is upright with the diaphragm taut.

46. 29 The loin is taut and lean, narrower than the rib cage, and with a slight tuck - up.

47. I liked him instantly, especially as he was a fitness fanatic and his body was solid and taut.

48. 'Blade Runner 2049' starts strong, with a clean, taut story, and stunning visuals from director Denis Villeneuve

49. It premiered in 19 and is as taut now, as touching, witty, and provocative as it seemed then.

50. The beautiful brocade coat stretched taut across the back, spreading to an intimidating width with his angry, indrawn breath.

51. 27 Just for a moment she remained very still, her senses taut, enjoying the light caress of his fingers.

52. When sound waves reach the end of the canal, they strike your eardrum, composed of thin, taut tissue.

53. He was playing with her emotions, stringing them out like a taut band that would snap at the slightest pressure.

54. Bowsing-in tackles are then rigged from the ship's side to another lug on the fall block and hauled taut

55. The heavy chains lifted, straightened and drew taut, and the stout steel frames of the gates began to buckle outwards.

56. The tow rope sprang taut, plucking the dinghy clear as the swell broke, thundering forward on to the waiting coral.

57. Centrifugal force is what keeps a string with a ball on the end taut when you whirl it around

58. He said nothing more, and his silence played across her taut nerves like a fingernail going down a blackboard.

59. The steel rope had to be used because a normal tight rope wouldn't keep taut between two unpredictable hot air balloons.

60. The taut dialogue raises a squirming smorgasbord of questions about the potential for bedlam when our profound individual differences are ignored.

61. The mechanical acoustic crossover network (700) allows multiple taut armature reciprocating impulse transducers (100) to be operated together from a signal input.

62. The Culprit, he believes, was the highly flammable cellulose doping compound used to coat the fabric covering and make it taut

63. Even after a night of sensational wines, the Blackbird is an enlivening drink, taut and Cascadingly flavorful, and one Michael Polenske might have named for …

64. Burleycue!), then back down into that sexy squat, pants taut across his thighs, as if the dance is warming up and taking its time.

65. Cadet Jesse Oliver (foreground), from Number 9 Cadet Corp in London, strains under the pressure of pulling one of the ropes for a rope bridge taut.

66. The five generals were standing at the foot of the dock, waiting to board as the FE tried in vain to untie the now taut and strained ropes.

67. Not only is the space in the cubital tunnel decreased, but the ulnar nerve is pulled taut and Bowstrung across the posterior side of the elbow (Image 3)

68. These cables were on the side of the bridge, like if you took a rubber band and stretched it taut across the Thames -- that's what's holding up this bridge.

69. Look for Beets that are firm and not too big, with taut, smooth skins and greens that look fresh enough to eat (in fact, Beet greens are edible, too).

70. 'Catenary' is a mathematical word that describes the curve created when two masts support a cable; if the cable is not taut, the cable hangs in a 'valley-like' curve

71. 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.

72. Taut with tension and packed with bone-chilling scenes that leap off the pages, The Bashkir Extraction brings back the international intrigue of the cold war in a thrilling new way.

73. 17 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.

74. Cloak and Dagger has its sharp, melodramatic moments high with excitement and its sequences so taut with suspense that the more susceptible types will be suffering from shattered nerves before the

75. He Bowsaw is an ancient tool and a member of a class of saws called frame saws, in which ten - sion from the frame is designed to hold the blade taut

76. As she watched him stalking around the little house, red with rage, body taut as a watch spring with Appressed aggression and his mouth constantly spewing Obscenities, she pictured him in

77. Within its pages the Ardenthearted ever have their work cut out for them, and the majestic prose and sprawling asides of McCarthy's earlier work have been scuttled in favor of a more taut, sparse

78. Cerebral and visceral, soft and heavy, melodic and abrasive, tender and brutal, familiar and strange, western and eastern, beautiful and ugly, taut yet sprawling and epic, they are a tangle of contradictions."

79. But visualize, if you can, this same activity being carried on by a small rubbery-hided animal, with a taut little body the shape of a keg perched on short stiff legs!

80. 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “24”, in Babbitt: The young negro Bootblack hummed "The Camp Meeting Blues" and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so taut at each stroke that it …