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Meanings of tauten in English
Usage of tauten in English
1
Those systems use hydraulics or electromagnetic fluids to soften or tauten the ride.
2
All heard the bow-strings tauten, until Vlad's raised hand halted them.
3
As they walked, he felt her shoulders and biceps tauten slightly.
4
She felt the muscles in his buttocks and thighs tauten.
5
He pulled up, felt the rope grow slack, then tauten as he let go.
6
Around the girl he drew his right arm; she felt his muscles tauten as he clasped her to him.
7
He came back and stood in front of me with the weapon, deliberately enough for me to tauten up.
8
Speak to me when you feel it coming; I don't want it to tauten you up with a jerk.
9
His body tautened against the straps holding it in the acceleration couch.
10
She placed her hands on her slim hips and tautened her figure.
11
We had just about tautened the tow-line when Alan's voice rang out.
12
Was bracing for impact when the rope tautened, snapping me around wildly.
13
His diaphragm tautened with the sharp pain of long-unused muscles, and he sneezed.
14
His face tautened and his arms lay limp as he read through it.
15
The rope tautened, and there was a sharp crack from below.
16
And then he was rigid, the shoulder muscles beneath his tunic tautening visibly.
Frequent collocations
Tauten through the time