tauten

IPA: tˈaʊtʌn

Examples of "tauten" in Sentences

As she listened I could see the fear tauten her face.
He felt his stale melancholia leave him, his head become clearer, his nerves tauten.
Something seemed to tauten in her face, but she said, 'Oh, it was all right, you know ...'
Every nerve in his body seemed to tauten: He pulled out his wand, moved into the shadows beside the decapitated elf heads, and waited.
Then, the legs tauten, the balance shifts into the balls of the feet, the torso seems to lengthen, and suddenly someone has a leg against her ear.
There was no breeze, and as the clumsy ship rolled and lurched on the heaving sea, her idle sails flapped against her masts with a regularly recurring noise, and her bowsprit would seem to rise higher with the water's swell, to dip again with a jerk that made each rope tremble and tauten.