Words similar to taut

Example sentences for: taut

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Waifish and vulnerable, Heche doesn't have an extra ounce of flab on her, and you can read how high the stakes are in her taut body and hungrily searching eyes.
When the rope goes taut, the second answers “That's me”; the leader will then belay and instruct the second “Climb when you're ready”; the second says “Climbing,” and the leader acknowledges, “Aye, aye.”
As a ferocious skinhead in last year's American History X , Norton was taut and ropy, his long torso curled into a sneer; here, he's skinny and wilting, a quivering pansy.
The later, whimsical novels of Elmore Leonard have been all too put-downable, but Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.
I wondered whether on British farms the common word for castrate was the same as here: cut . Presumably the other terms we had heard in use on the mesa, flank for `heave the roped calf onto the ground' and hogtie for `truss it up with a pickin' string ' while the well-trained roping horse keeps the ketch rope taut, are not used, as the practices are not, in Britain.