Sentence examples for crowds of tense from inspiring English sources

I had braced myself for crowds of tense shoppers.

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

After the past-tense "said," sequence-of-tense rules require "had been continuing" or "was continuing".

Weeks of tense wrangling followed.

After two days of tense politicking, Vice Pres.

Each person moves through the throbbing club with tense determination on their faces, scanning the amorphous crowds of dancing clubbers to find their target.

The campaign, one of the most tense in Austria for years, reached fever pitch on Friday evening when Mr Haider delivered his final pre-election address at a rally which attracted crowds of about 5,000 at Vienna's elegant Stephansplatz.

The crowd was tense but subdued, and its mood appeared to be one of stunned sorrow.

"Crowds can get tense," he said.

Once the competition started, the crowd was tense and involved, but not excessively patriotic.

How about this: "The city has never been so uncomfortable, so crowded, so tense".