Sentence examples for mildly tense from inspiring English sources
The Knicks roared to a 26-point lead before holding on for a mildly tense 116-107 win.
On one end, place situations that only make you mildly anxious or tense.
Jones seems cheery enough on stage – she chats away and teases her partner gently – but Thompson is mildly distracted, perhaps a little tense.
The political atmosphere remains tense, to put it mildly, throughout the region.
And my chums were mildly amused, but around us the restaurant politely tensed in case there was indeed a cholesterol-craving, hard-boozing, monoglot Brit amongst them, about to be charming in the usual loud and awkward ways.
There are mildly jarring bumps in the text: an abrupt switch from recollection to present tense, and a confusing line that appears to be from the girl's consciousness when it should rightly be attributed to her teacher.
Mr. Fitzgerald's tense, closed-in performance cuts through any potential clichés in this mildly familiar character: the bitter, boozy, loveless gay best friend, ever ready with a wisecrack.
What gives these encounters their mildly farcical tone is the fact that Raylan and Boyd would much rather avoid all these tense encounters, and yet the lives they lead force them to continually endure them with stoic resignation.
Mildly unenthusiastically.
