tauten

Example Sentences

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At 9pm the sun went down behind the rig, quite spectacularly, and after that the tow-lines between Winner and her tugs visibly tautened.

From The Guardian

For the big picture, Morlot tautened the massive climax at the beginning of the recapitulation.

From Seattle Times

His whole being tautens; the chin is implacable; justice is served.

From The New Yorker

It would be helpful if Mr. Suh had tidied up his material and tautened his second act, which lacks some of the furious zaniness of the first and ends at least three times.

From New York Times

You feel a certain tautening of wit, plus a keen and very Coen-like awareness that clichés, which abound in the genre of the spy drama, are there to be flirted with.

From The New Yorker