Sentence examples for a tense outpost from inspiring English sources

From its earliest days as a coaling station for warships, the base at Guantánamo Bay had little military importance, but during the Cold War it was a tense outpost.

He was one of the lucky few to catch the last flight out of Akobo, a tense outpost to the far east of South Sudan where a UN base was overrun on Friday, resulting in the deaths of two Indian peacekeepers.

IN THE so-called war on terror, Cambodia is a sleepy outpost on a tense South-East Asian front that stretches from the Philippines to Thailand.

Britain's first European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake, has docked with the International Space Station after a tense, last minute glitch with the Soyuz spacecraft forced the crew to make an unusual manual approach to the orbiting outpost.

A tense silence followed.

But a tense, a tense, my vote for a tense!

A tense moment followed.

A tense silence ensued.

It was a tense moment.

Expect a tense few months.

A tense moment at First Fire.