taut definition | what is taut-meaning | define taut in a sentence

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stretched tightly

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firm and flexed

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kept in a good condition

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stressed

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concise and controlled

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Since the late 1980s, Dunaway has been fascinated by the infinitely complex harmonic overtones the pressure and movement of her hands can create on the taut skin of an inflated latex balloon.

(source: Voice of America)

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The muscles in the young woman’s face are taut.

(source: Voice of America)

 

Every muscle was taut and braced as if to resist some sudden attack from outside.

(source: Virginia Woolf in 'Night and Day')

 

The first hint this is no ordinary dance troupe comes as the performance begins. A swirl of taut bodies intermeshes with the glint of steel spokes from wheelchairs.

(source: Voice of America)

 

 The teenagers are lean, taut, and incredibly flexible. 

(source: Voice of America)

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The taut ship never looked better.

(source: Voice of America)

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The 84-year-old Wajda - whose father was killed in the massacre - says the truth covered up in classified Soviet documents had stretched already taut relations between the two countries for decades.

(source: Voice of America)

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Phone Booth is a taut psychological thriller with Colin Farrell as a fast and loose New Yorker forced to confront his own transgressions when he's trapped a Manhattan telephone booth by a menacing, unseen sniper given voice by Kiefer Sutherland.

(source: Voice of America)