tautness

Example Sentences

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In the days leading up to my due date, I snapped pictures in the mirror of my belly under the tautness of a silver dress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

I think of Philip Roth’s “Everyman,” the tautness by which it re-creates the life of its protagonist.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

In “Agon,” the masterful 1957 collaboration between Balanchine and Stravinsky, a performance of the first pas de trois — with India Bradley, Taylor Stanley and Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara — was mesmerizing in its tautness.

From New York Times • May 29, 2023

Pairing her with Paul, who brings a hardened soulfulness to Caleb, freights their adventure with palpable tautness.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022

Hours later, he felt a tautness in his stomach when he heard Master’s car: the crunch of gravel and the hum of the engine before it stopped in the garage.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie