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

A Busoni aficionado, Levit brings tautness without rigidity to tame the sprawling, potentially meandering, Bach-loving “Fantasia Contrappuntistica,” before closing with Busoni’s “Nuit de Noël,” another chromatic fantasia, gently snowy.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023

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

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

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022

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