How To Use Tauten In A Sentence
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Many times, in the course of the day, alertly and nonchalantly, almost with a quizzical knowingness, Jerry cocked his head at the mainsail when it made sudden swooping movements or slacked and tautened its crashing sheet-gear.
CHAPTER III
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He wrote, ‘She is known for scraping her hair back into an ultra-tight, skin-tautening ponytail dubbed the Croydon facelift.‘
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Her hands held her knees; her panties, a stenopaeic dull lead white shining in the gloom, tautened between her pale raised thighs.
Being with Thin Girls
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Oofty-Oofty took a turn on a bitt, the rope tautened, and the Ghost, lunging onward, jerked the cook to the surface.
Chapter 21
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The tow-line had now tautened, at right angles to the two boats, and the predicament was laughable.
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
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There was no breeze, and as the clumsy ship rolled and lurched on the heaving sea, her idle sails flapped against her masts with a regularly recurring noise, and her bowsprit would seem to rise higher with the water's swell, to dip again with a jerk that made each rope tremble and tauten.
For the term of his natural life
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* Estin ethnos Ioudaion legomenon, hoi polin ochuran kai megalen echontes Ierosoluma, tauten hupereidon hupo Ptolemaio genomenen, hopla labein ou thelesantes, alla dia ten akairon desidaimonian chalepon hupemeinan echein despoten.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek
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As she listened I could see the fear tauten her face.
CONSPIRATA
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the rope tautened
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She quickly jerked her head away, but not before his alert gaze had swept the tautened skin around her eyes and the drained look of her complexion.
Western Man
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Daylight's muscles tautened a second time, and this time in earnest, until steadily all the energy of his splendid body was applied, and quite imperceptibly, without jerk or strain, the bulky nine hundred pounds rose from the door and swung back and forth, pendulum like, between his legs.
Chapter III
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The main-sheet slacked and dipped, then shot over our heads after the boom and tautened with a crash on the traveller.
The King of the Greeks
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When Gus began to slide-as he soon must-would he, Hazard, be able to take in the slack and then meet the shock as the other tautened the rope and darted toward the plunge?
DUTCH COURAGE
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When I grin, the stitches tauten.
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tauten a rope
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The skin of her cheeks tautened.
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The muscles in his face suddenly tautened.
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Then, the legs tauten, the balance shifts into the balls of the feet, the torso seems to lengthen, and suddenly someone has a leg against her ear.
Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions
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Something seemed to tauten in her face, but she said, 'Oh, it was all right, you know ...'
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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He shifted his feet slightly, tautened his muscles with a tentative pull, then relaxed again, questing for a perfect adjustment of all the levers of his body.
Chapter III
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The tree, deeper in the water, was travelling faster, and the painter tautened as the boat took the tow.
Chapter VIII
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The main-sheet tautened with a brisk rattling of the blocks, the boom uplifted, the sail bellied out, and the Reindeer heeled over - over, and over, till the lee-rail went under, the cabin windows went under, and the bay began to pour in over the cockpit rail.
White and Yellow
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Without thought, she stripped naked and bathed in the cooling water, splashing over her and feeling it tauten and refresh her body.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Its style stretched the skin across her face, eliminating the crepy look around her eyes and the lines of strain recently etched near her mouth as well as smoothing her brow and tautening a sagging chin.
The Glory Game
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Every nerve in his body seemed to tauten: He pulled out his wand, moved into the shadows beside the decapitated elf heads, and waited.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
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Without thought, she stripped naked and bathed in the cooling water, splashing over her and feeling it tauten and refresh her body.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Oofty-Oofty took a turn on a bitt, the rope tautened, and the Ghost, lunging onward, jerked the cook to the surface.
Chapter 21
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He felt his stale melancholia leave him, his head become clearer, his nerves tauten.
Autumn
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In using this ingenious wire stretcher, he stapled his wire to post number one, carried the length past post number two, looped the chain around post number three, having the chain long enough so that he might tauten the wire and hold the crankhandle steady with his knee or left arm while he drove the holding staple in post number two.
Hiram the Young Farmer
