Matthew said with a sudden, bleary smile, as if he needed to break the taut thread of emotion.

Similar to the ellipse, a hyperbola can be constructed using a taut thread.

Paraphrenll darted away toward the curtained exit, only to be drawn short suddenly, as if held in leash by taut threads.

She came back to him, careful not to step on the taut thread, and picked up her purse where she'd left it beside him.

The music box pegs should pluck at the taut thread intermittently enough to keep them looking awhile yet.

A thread of tension, taut and humming, quivered between the two of them, but he didn't speak.

He also demonstrated the conjecture by placing a straight stick or a taut thread next to the light beam.

Along the edges of the shutters, the taut threads of light abruptly brightened, then dimmed, then grew bright again as lightning flashed outside.

There was a taut thread of pain running through his cortex, the neurohormones' legacy.

It came as a shock for him to realize the taut thread he walked between domestic peace and war.