Sentence examples for taut to from inspiring English sources

A utility pole leaned on a magnolia tree, the phone lines stretched taut to the house.

"The skin should be absolutely dry and taut to the flesh before you fry it," Mr. Kave said.

Together the American and Japanese boys and girls, 12 to 15 years old, pulled twine taut to make rope, and fashioned dolls out of corncobs.

That way, after the cables are threaded through the holes, they can be pulled taut to form a conical shape that reaches the ground.

A chain hanging under its own weight is the canonical system to study the transition from taut to low-tension chain behaviour.

There is a Glass Chain that runs from Joseph Paxton to Taut to Mies van der Rohe to Harrison to Nouvel to David Chipperfield to Toyo Ito and beyond.

However, while the original Taken gave Neeson a compelling character to play and dropped him into the middle of a taut, to-the-point storyline, 3 Days to Kill does its star no favors with a muddled, often-meandering narrative (story by Besson) that goes in too many directions, and far too often thinks it's more clever than it is.

Telling Times displays her intellectual and creative range, from travel writing to polemic, taut reportage to literary criticism.

They were not refreshing enough to drink as aperitifs, and they were not taut enough to stand up to anything except maybe the blandest chicken dishes.

In one (clearly scripted) scene, she elatedly instructs the boys to expose their taut abs to her Cosmo-swilling cohorts, who in turn judge their fuckability.

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