And there didn't seem to be enough of it, the skin was stretched so tight.
When resources are stretched tight, making ends meet can be a challenge.
Our resources are going to be stretched tight as it is.
The skin there was stretched tight over her growing womb.
The skin was nearly transparent, stretched tight over the bones of his face.
But he said that the cloth was not stretched tight enough to keep out the poisonous air.
You got your finger on the trigger, nerves stretched tight, eyes moving.
Ael could feel the line inside her, stretched tight toward the man, around this corner and to the left.
It was puffed up, with the skin stretched tight, like a drum.
The sail stretches tight like a bubble ready to burst.
She felt like a bow, stretched tight and quivering, and she was afraid her knees would give at any moment.
But the Navy was stretched too tight to make the project worthwhile.
It is stretched very tight (with fatigue strength of the saw metal being the limiting factor).
New, gloves-off version: she suffers the effects of not-great plastic surgery around her mouth, which is now stretched too tight to smile.
He had huge hands, their skin stretched so tight that they seemed amphibian.
I could see the slender muscular legs stretch tight and then go loose, and after another minute Leeds took his hand away and stood up.
The chain was stretched so tight that Harry imagined it might produce, if plucked, a high note worthy of any operatic soprano.
The slick, walnut skin stretched tight and shiny.
He had one of those skull-like faces on which the skin seems stretched painfully tight.
She jumped, her nerves stretched so tight that she went off-balance for a moment, and had to twist to catch herself with her good hand.
