Tautness is an English word with synonyms like tension or tenseness. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tautness in a sentence
Tautness meaning
The property of being taut.
Synonyms of Tautness
Using Tautness
- The main meaning on this page is: The property of being taut.
- Useful related words include: tension, tensity, tenseness, condition.
Context around Tautness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tautness
- In this selection, "tautness" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tremendous and necessary stand out and add context to how "tautness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include reaches a tautness that is and sustain that tautness is masterful. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tautness" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tautness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
To sustain that tautness is masterful work – and it’s doing it without the one-shot touch. (17 words)
The bow is tightened before playing, until it reaches a tautness that is preferred by the player. (17 words)
Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige head the cast, while Dee Rees guides the story with tremendous tautness. (18 words)
The tautness of the skin can be controlled by the performer with one hand to manipulate the sound as he plays it with the other. (25 words)
The interaction of forces would create an ideal tension—a tautness—necessary to sustain a cable of such length, de la Torre says. (23 words)
Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige head the cast, while Dee Rees guides the story with tremendous tautness. (18 words)
Example sentences (5)
To sustain that tautness is masterful work – and it’s doing it without the one-shot touch.
The interaction of forces would create an ideal tension—a tautness—necessary to sustain a cable of such length, de la Torre says.
Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige head the cast, while Dee Rees guides the story with tremendous tautness.
The tautness of the skin can be controlled by the performer with one hand to manipulate the sound as he plays it with the other.
The bow is tightened before playing, until it reaches a tautness that is preferred by the player.