Sentence examples for too taut from inspiring English sources

"Cookin' up a meat serving". Timberlake's gifts are not in his tone he winces through his vocals, which can make them feel too taut, like a rubber band that's about to snap but in his performance.

If the wire is too taut, it could pull the tail hook off or else snap and lash out across the deck, injuring or killing anyone in its path.

Timberlake's gifts are not in his tone he winces through his vocals, which can make them feel too taut, like a rubber band that's about to snap but in his performance.

Too taut and too tanned, it's like he's robbed a bank but forgotten to take the stocking off, or he's had his head wrapped in clingfilm and then held down momentarily on a hostess trolley.

Funnier than the jokes were the reactions of the assembled: Gordon Brown-style rictus grins on faces too taut to be entirely of Mother Nature's manufacture, confused stares into empty space, and many a head in hand, all set to the soundtrack of audible gasps and censorious harrumphs.

He looks good, but his face is a little too tan, his hair a little too dark, his skin a little too taut.

He's too taut-wired, too off-classical, even as the romantic outsider.

Or the too-taut feeling of the blackout mask tethered tightly to your face.

Pressure should be taut; not too tight and not too loose.

The surface should be taut, but should not be too tight that it begins to tear.

She makes of Ludwig Tieck's enigmatic nightmare (1812), about Blond Eckbert and his wife Berthe (Weir is responsible for the libretto too), a taut, piercingly beautiful piece.