Sentence examples for seems tense from inspiring English sources

The air seems tense with anxiety.

Wise chap.Centre Court seems tense as the players knock up.

Yet, the elegant 71-year-old Spaniard seems tense and worried.

Sometimes, it seems, tense situations are resolved by good humor, by good sense or by letting fate take its course.

As he leads a visitor down a corridor lined with whimsical circus posters, Slifka seems tense.

If she seems tense, do not kiss her again.

Fitzgerald employs a taut shorter line (iambic pentameter, with many truncations — a meter he subtly loosens and tightens as he goes along), and in moments of great lyrical intensity his version regularly seems tenser, richer.

Goussault seemed tense.

He seemed tense.

Serena seemed tense.

But everything seemed tense and awkward.