The Legionaries' hearts tautened again with faith in this strange, this usually silent and emotionless man whose very name was unknown to almost all of them.
It caught fairly and squarely on the rail of the skiff, which was jerked backward out of safety as the rope tautened and the salmon boat ploughed on.
The main-sheet slacked and dipped, then shot over our heads after the boom and tautened with a crash on the traveller.
Dolphin, with Lester on the bridge and Lucy beside him at the telegraph, went ahead, and tautened out the tow line, and Lindley made all sail on his stumpy jury masts.
Hard life on the island had thinned him down and tautened and toughened him so that I wondered sometimes, washing his body, if this was indeed the man with whom I had vowed my quarrel.
He saw Shabako pass a hand over his face, as if his body were suddenly tired; but the next moment it tautened again and he swung around.
Cold contempt tautened the thin, ascetic features of his face.
Instantly and intensely alive, Io tautened it and felt the jerk of Ban's signal.
A very fine thief indeed," repeated the woman in a low voice tautened strangely from its previous brittle clarity.
And the white hot loop was tautened until the rope of muscle seared away and just the roasted stump was left.
The ice glared like fire, A long bright Hell of choking cold, And each vein was a tautened wire, Throbbing with torture -- and I crawled.
The belaying-pin which held the tackle had broken, the boom flew over to the other side, and the sheet tautened out like a bow-string.
As the brig drifted astern the rope fastened on the quarter gradually tautened until the strain on the anchor checked us, allowing the vessel to swing around until her top-sails filled.
He tautened and his body rose slowly from the ground.
His diaphragm tautened with the sharp pain of long-unused muscles, and he sneezed.
Leaning well out of the open window, Kenyon peered along the glistening length of tautened cable until parting from the converging rays of the searchlight it vanished into space.
The eighteenth was half-way along the tautened hawser when Fosterdyke shouted, "Let go!
We did not awake early intentionally; the wet mist in the night tautened the cord of the fog horn, and when the steam pressure rose, off it went loud and long enough to waken seventy sleepers.
Knowing it, his lips opened to speak the words; and Joe Kent, who had mastered the difficult art of starting a punch from wherever his hand happened to be, tautened his arm and shoulder muscles to steel.
The thin little body tautened like an overstrung violin string, and a shock of russet hair was pushed hastily back from a pair of indefinable eyes, in which shone the light of an intense grief strange in one so young.
With a jump the animal tautened the traces to the shrill menace of the lash.
Rex dropped his uplifted hand from the wire so swiftly that the tautened metal sang in a high-pitched crescendo, and he took two quick steps to her side.
The head straightened, the black eyebrows pulled together, and her lower lip tautened across her teeth until her jaw muscles quivered.
It had tautened when he pushed the second switch in the jeweled dolphin on his bedpost.
He shifted his feet slightly, tautened his muscles with a tentative pull, then relaxed again, questing for a perfect adjustment of all the levers of his body.
The tree, deeper in the water, was travelling faster, and the painter tautened as the boat took the tow.
Then the moment arrived when the great ropes tautened till they vibrated under the tension like fiddle-strings when a bow is passed across them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tautened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
