Sentence examples for a tense team from inspiring English sources

"We had become a tense team in trying too hard to clinch the division title," Torre said.

The left-handed Pettitte's failure to respond to brushback pitches in a game in Seattle at the beginning of the 1998 season led to a tense team meeting that some players thought was the turning point of that season.

After the defeat Strauss said after tonight's defeat that the players were disturbed that Butt had made his claims "without proof" and were determined to ensure "our names aren't sullied in this manner".Butt's comments prompted Strauss to call a tense team meeting yesterday, at which it was decided the match would go ahead.

All that changed on Sunday, where although Lewis Hamilton dominated from his pole position at the start to his victory at the end, the race was a palpitating mix of daring overtaking moves, tense team tire strategies and other great driving.

There is a tense three-team race percolating in the National League East and the surprising Mets have made the final two weeks of the season a lot more intriguing than anyone had expected.

The shooting was one of several during the day in which tense teams of investigators awaited the deadly sniper's next move.

He also has surely been part of the transformation of a tense and surly team into a relaxed and confident one.

A tifo at one end of the stadium read "No more fun and games" and that seemed to set the tone for the evening, as Houston Dynamo, whose five-game unbeaten streak had yet done little to dispel the suspicion that they'd got the timing on their usual late kick for home wrong, sat in very cautiously against a somewhat tense New York team who also needed a win.

A tense final 10km of teams jostling for position was followed by a bold breakaway by Fabian Cancellara ("This is what we call a cheeky move … by the man we call 'Fabulous Cancellara'," said Sherwen, turning instantly into Miranda's "what-I-call" mother).

In a tense, error-strewn contest his team led by three points at half-time, by two Kenny Logan penalties to one to Saracens' Luke Smith.

Irish supporters had held off until now to unleash The Fields of Athenry and its mournful power lifted their rejuvenated team in a tense finish.