Sentence examples for tautly stretched from inspiring English sources

Pulling last year's shirt tautly stretched the printed design to say "Loser King," upside-down.

Imagine the familial skin tautly stretched over protuberant ribs.

Titled "Libraries," Auerbach's exhibition consists of 11 tautly stretched tapestries that depict full bookshelves.

The smells emanate from lovely "walls" of tautly stretched, hand-dyed yarn that has been soaked in essential oils.

It consists of 18 small rooms, divided by walls of tautly stretched scrim, a signature Irwin material.

This year, in fact, I saw one "aero" recumbent, an odd-looking contraption in which the rider had zipped himself into a tautly stretched nylon fabric shell.

Resplendent with beads, Christmas tree lights, collaged images, wood grain paper and, in one case, car fresheners, the 10 paintings here argue noisily that Mr. Spurrier's idiosyncratic painting technique -- which involves surfaces made of tautly stretch Scotch tape -- is as limitless in its possibilities as more traditional materials.

She had grown so thin lately; her skin stretched tautly over her nose and her cheekbones like a sheet on a well-made bed.

Chuck Knoblauch was doing an impression of his teammate Jim Leyritz: a miniature Yankees jersey jammed into his waistband with the fabric stretched tautly over his torso, a No. 13 taped on his back, and he was bent forward, bat waggling.

"That's why your best bet is a safety cover," Mr. Del Negro said, referring to a woven mesh-type cover that is stretched tautly over the pool and held in place with springs attached to anchors embedded in the pool deck.

It took a little getting used to - you set the stencil down so that it stretched tautly across the ink pad, but then the machine took over.