Sentence examples for extra tense from inspiring English sources

The atmosphere in the call center grew extra tense as the day wore on.

"It's just normal I felt extra nervous and extra tense.

Rich Levin, a baseball spokesman, sat with Selig across those tense extra innings.

Living in Houston in 2002 was a lot like being an extra in a tense, unhappy reality TV show.

The Rays would not go away, though, and as the game moved through the tense extra innings, the Yankees would win or lose with Proctor since they were not going to jeopardize Mariano Rivera or Dave Roberston in a game that did not matter for them.

In the Largo of Chopin's Sonata No. 3 in B minor, and in parts of Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" — most notably in "Scarbo" — he stretched the composers' pauses just enough to draw an extra measure of tense expectation, but not so much as to seem exaggerated.

The incident has ignited an already highly combustible situation, added an extra edge to an already tense battle, and raised the stakes still higher in their battle for the ultimate prize in motorsport, the F1 World Championship.

Zambia beat the Sudanese 3-0 in regulation time, whereas Ghana needed extra-time to win their tense quarter-final against the Carthage Eagles in Gabon.

There was little to separate the teams in a tense opening period of extra-time though, and an increasingly slippy surface introduced a further element of hesitancy.

At present, the relationship between doctors and patients in China is very tense, resulting in doctors being extra prudent.

Neither side scored in 90 minutes, or in the tense, nerve-racking 30 minutes of extra time.