Sentence examples for are so tense from inspiring English sources

"People are so tense," he added cheerfully.

A shopkeeper who had chosen to remain in Kabul said yesterday: "People are so tense.

"This is especially so when that person is the former prime minister" of New Zealand, and when relations between the countries are so tense, she wrote.

Halbershtat has found spots on my body - like my forehead or mid back - which are so tense that a particularly deep "touch" will leave me writhing in agony.

Feelings in Khartoum are so tense that even in anti-government circles there are fears that, if things go wrong, Sudan could be lost to the West for years.In Darfur, the regime has carried out appalling crimes.

"Everyone was so tense.

Everything is so tense and so angry.

"It was so tense, so strict.

Don't be so tense with my tonguing.

I was so tense I couldn't eat".

I couldn't sit down because I was so tense.