Ere long the submarine boy was going up into the air some eight or nine feet at every tautening of the blanket.
These budding young naval officers fairly bent to their work, tautening and loosening on the blanket until their muscles fairly ached.
Time after time the salmon leaped high out of the water, and whenever it did so both boys were filled with apprehension until the tautening of the line again told them that the creature had not broken away.
An oily calm spreading across the sea from shoreward overhauled her by degrees, overtook, and held her, with sails idle and sheets tautening and sagging as she rolled on the heave of the swell.
Another rush, met by a paying-out, a gradual tauteningof the line, a strong and steady pull.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tautening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
