Sentence examples for highly tense from inspiring English sources
It's a highly tense position".
The result is a highly tense stalemate that has made it unclear who is in charge in Sri Lanka.
Edge / (ej) / n. / the line of intersection of two surfaces; the state of being highly tense, nervous or irritable: taking my shoes and socks off at the airport leaves me on edge.
MPs were evacuated in service vehicles after heavy gendarme reinforcements broke up the crowds at 3 am.Tzvetlin Yovchev, the interior minister, claimed that "my colleagues behaved perfectly and remained calm in a highly tense environment".
RASKA, SERBIA — On the day Kosovo promised that it would take full control of its borders for the first time since its declaration of independence in 2008, an international force instead took over the final two border posts Friday morning, seeking to prevent violence and calm the highly tense atmosphere in the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo.
This year was already highly tense — starting in the fall, China's leadership changes hands for only the fourth time since the 1949 Communist revolution, in an intricate, hidden process of selection that the Brookings Institution's Chinese politics expert, Cheng Li, has described as "turbulent".
The negotiations appeared extremely tense and highly combustible amid simmering hostility between Putin on the one hand and Merkel and Poroshenko on the other.
The negotiations appeared extremely tense and highly combustible, with simmering hostility between Putin on the one hand and Merkel and Poroshenko on the other.
No one knows what his final moments were for sure, but theories suggest he was attacked by a competing male during the highly-tense mating season.
Paul Greengrass has a habit of directing historical films in a highly effective, tense documentary style while making striking, though disparate, political points.
Some cultures value a relaxed, natural vocal quality, with loosely articulated lyrics, while others cultivate a highly trained, tense sound, with precisely enunciated words.
