Sentence examples for more tense with from inspiring English sources

What had been a laugh and a joke got more tense with each game.

In recent days the drama had become more tense, with Charter proposing a slate of directors to replace TWC's board.

The third set, played out under the floodlights, was much more tense, with both players turning up the quality level.

"I don't think you are ever going to see two buildings that are more tense, with people sitting on the edge of their seats".

After Ivanisevic's fourth-set eruption the fifth could not have been more tense, with both players aware that one slip could be fatal.

Here he was playing it on the piano, with the bassist Matt Penman and the drummer Jochen Rückert, and it had a different personality: first more tense, with its crowded contrapuntal opening, then more permissive and abstract.

By contrast, Mr. Woodcock said, Internet service providers in places like Cambodia have a much more tense relationship with the government and have readied themselves for potential tampering.

If it were fiction, there would be more tense encounters with English-speaking Iranian officials, and they would be more suspicious and knowledgeable.

Nico Rosberg says he expects more tense moments with Lewis Hamilton as their title battle reaches its climax.

When cops give us tickets for being late it creates a more tense relationship with the students.

It is clear that Albright's meeting with Arafat will be even more tense than her talks with Netanyahu.