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

Bowers’ works typically create a vivifying tautness between the individual and the group.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022

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

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022

The singers were intense in their back and forth, but the long, arching melodic lines that hold this scene together are in the orchestra, and Kim brought them out with tautness and full-bodied sound.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

With the threaded needle in my hand, I felt a little calmer, in control of something, even if only the tautness of a seam.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman