tauter
- comparative of taut.
Example Sentences
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With judicious trimming, particularly of the occasional puddle of expository or repetitive dialogue, the play would gain a tauter pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 26, 2025
The pacing is tauter this year, and more tense.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
The device, called CoolSculpting, was entering an already-crowded beauty industry selling flatter stomachs and tauter jawlines, but it had an advantage: a vaunted scientific pedigree.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023
Could “Lessons” have been a few instructions tauter?
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022
And once more there was silence; and the expectancy, momentarily relaxed, was stretched again, tauter, tauter, almost to the tearing point.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
