He reached down and pulled one of them to him until it grew taut.

Then the rope grew taut and he was lifted off his feet.

Every sense of his body grew taut as he strained to see and hear.

But the attitudes grow taut with 10 days left in camp.

His face muscles grew taut as he watched the screen.

She had felt his muscles growing taut as he spoke.

His dances have grown increasingly taut in the past few years.

They only grew more taut when she said: "We left the bodies."

There did not seem to be anything to say to that, and the silence grew taut between them.

The muscles on the hands that held me grew more taut.