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