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

Though Valadon contours her son beautifully, capturing the tautness of his belly and the turn of his foot, even conveying the childish smoothness of his skin, the line itself is slow and thick.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

The faintest tautness came to the edges of her pale, smooth face.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu