Democrats and Republicans were not the only ones on tenterhooks for the 37 days it took to decide who would be the next president.
– a cliffhanger that will leave us all on tenterhooks for the entire week.
For weeks, school officials and education advocates across New York State have waited on tenterhooks for the list of schools deemed "persistently dangerous," which state education officials were required to prepare by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Drugmakers and doctors are waiting on tenterhooks for the study.
I tell you, the crowd was on tenterhooks for the event to begin.
Once our film, Dying to Tell the Story, was delivered, we waited on tenterhooks for the verdict on our efforts.
God knows, the world has been on tenterhooks for long enough about the shape, size, and above all about the food, of Dinner, Heston Blumenthal's latest restaurant excursion and the first serious development away from his home territory of Bray.
Mr Menem had kept the country on tenterhooks for two days, refusing to sign his resignation from the race even after his campaign staff had announced it to the press.
This episode is a continuation of the prior one, where we were left, cruelly, on tenterhooks, for an entire week, without knowing whether Luke will be sent home or if his last minute declaration of love will save him.
Locals in Narrabri and further afield wait on tenterhooks for an outcome that may change the area completely.
After all, the federal government has just bailed out Wall Street, and the broader economy has been on tenterhooks for months as fears of a recession – or worse – loom on the horizon.
