1 The film —tautly directed by horror-meister Sam Raimi —is almost assured an Oscar nomination.

2 Shelley Winters also stars in this underrated thriller, tautly directed by Robert Wise.

3 The rope was tautly stretched.

4 The ropes quivered tautly under his hands.

5 That was unforgivable, ' he said tautly, stroking the soft flesh.

6 New carbon-core aluminum wires can be stretched more tautly than conventional copper wires and so can carry perhaps three times as much current before sagging below safe heights.

7 He was still sitting astride the bike, balancing it with his long, lean legs tautly encased in black leather.

8 Two sets of bunk beds in each room along the living area, each bed tautly clothed.

9 As the shadow rises, it breaks into a cloud of tautly ribbed sail, aflame in the tropical sun.

10 The central meaning shared by these adjectives is . not tautly bound, held, or fastened.

11 When the body falls a certain distance toward the ground, the elastic rope is pulled tautly to prevent the body from continuing to drop.

12 The exterior of the building has a crisp appearance, as though an outer skin were stretched tautly over the structure.

13 As the shadow rises, it breaks into a cloud of tautly ribbed ...