Sentence examples for getting very tense from inspiring English sources

"Things are getting very tense down here," Mr. Harris said, pointing to hideouts on his ranch that illegal immigrants had used to elude the United States Border Patrol.

52nd over: Australia 220-8 (target 282; Warne 42, Lee 18) If there was a sofa at GU I'd be behind it: Giles is on, and it's getting very tense.

Oh, it's getting very tense at New Road now.

If the courts got involved, things might start getting very tense.

He then yelled across the store to Bob "Come ring up your customers... you are not allowed to help a new customer until you finish ringing up your old ones!" The mood in the shoe department started getting very tense.

When it loses, things can get very tense very quickly.

In the last half-hour of the show it got very tense.

Even though she would later say that she was serving like "a grandmother," she was still giving Williams reason to get very tense.

I was so invested in the characters that I got very tense and had to put the book down for a while!

When Gemma finds out, it's hard to stay BFFs… I like this book because it gets very tense at the end, and the way Jacqueline Wilson lets it out is fascinating.

It got very tense and it was very close.