Sentence examples for were taut from inspiring English sources

Nerves were taut and tears were in everyone's eyes.

(And he was demanding of himself as a dancer, too. His performances were taut and sharp).

And his band's songs, especially those with obscene titles, were taut, self-loathing and angry.

Now the excavators reared back until the cables were taut, and the wedges came tumbling out of the stands.

Her jaw had clenched; she was grinding her teeth, and the muscles in her neck were taut.

His figure and his muscles were taut, and his eyes darted between the hotel staff, me and his belongings.

When nerves are taut.

This match is taut.

The stories are taut.

Here, as elsewhere, Jay-Z is taut.

His story-telling is taut and lucid.