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Meanings of tautness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tension"
Examples for "tension"
1
Yet continued tension between civilians and health officials perhaps vindicated his approach.
2
The opening of state borders continues to create political tension in Australia.
3
Results: In 10 patients it was possible to perform tension free urethroplasty.
4
There is now a tension between economic and political motives within Europe.
5
There is clearly tension emerging between the tourism industry and State policy-makers.
1
The falter in the words spoke to the tenseness of his suspense.
2
The tenseness of the clasp revealed the strain that was upon her.
3
Something came to relieve the tenseness of the moment for Jolly Roger.
4
The tenseness of her attitude relaxed suddenly when the child was gone.
5
Their tenseness made the oldest trick in the world serve Lockley's purpose.
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The Mistress was listening with a tensity which momentarily grew more painful.
2
The girl gazed with growing tensity; her hat-brim pressed the window.
3
And still the deadlock, the atmosphere of tensity growing more vibrant every second.
4
He sat up suddenly, his muscular tensity increasing the hurt of the scurvy.
5
Her hand, resting lightly on the door-handle, gripped it with a sudden tensity.
Usage of tautness in English
1
Infinite tautness between sense and form, sign and substance, matter and spirit.
2
The tautness of our rope shows she must still be holding on.
3
It feels like he's reaching down through years to touch this tautness.
4
His shoulders had the tautness of someone who is angry or afraid.
5
Experience had drawn Annja's reflexes to hair-trigger tautness where her survival was concerned.
6
Billy examined the tautness of the tent ropes and the fixedness of stakes.
7
He gestured to a messenger, swallowed the tautness of his throat.
8
The flatness of belly, the tautness of muscles as she strains against the manacles.
9
Scott knew it was a hanging tautness in his stomach.
10
His entire body hungered for keen sensation, something exciting and violent to relieve the tautness.
11
But he felt a tautness across his face: as though someone was pressing on it.
12
The creature startled, a muscular tautness rippling through her.
13
These happy circumstances did not take away any tautness from the performance of Fabio Capello's side.
14
Something else was hidden among the wrinkles, adding further tautness to his closed eyelids-an uneasy hesitancy.
15
The provocative move only accentuated the length of her legs and the tautness of her body.
16
André's cheerfully chubby face showed a certain tautness.
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