Sentence examples for as a tense from inspiring English sources
The film winds up as a tense, frustrating stalemate.
A small self-portrait shows the painter as a tense young man, beset by doubts.
The race served as a tense, scintillating coda to an otherwise whimsical night.
No problems were immediately reported as a tense atmosphere filled the stadium.
Advisers describe the session as a tense but necessary clearing of the air that allowed them to move forward.
He described Wednesday's match as a tense and nerve-racking night for a young team, and the result as a relief.
Yet as recently as last year, at a tense family meeting, the Fords decided against bringing in Wall Street advisers to explore their options.
I'm thinking of a novel in which some charged sentence makes so expansive a bound that every other sentence is retrospectively seen as a tensing and a preparing to spring.
If the visitors can start as emphatically as Ireland did, a tense away win could just materialise.
And he played the piece with a conviction that made that interpretation sound as if a tense approach were the only sensible way.
LEAVING at a moment as tense as this, Mr. Sharp has decided, is a bad idea.
