Sentence examples for she was tense from inspiring English sources
She was tense and scared, near tears.
She was tense with her own family and thought with the Ingrams she could let go.
She was tense and unsettled, the way I remembered her, and she refused to stay in our guest bedroom.
She was tense in the ballroom solo, moving on a smaller scale through its delicate balances and whipping turns.
When bedtime came and I insisted that Kathy recite "A Pot Holder's Prayer" with Pansy, she was tense with excitement.
But to her own children, she has been something more complicated, and she confesses that she still curses and yells when she is tense.
Fearful for her job, Sarah, a script editor (we know she's tense from her anti-smoking patch) has summoned a young playwright (the author of one produced play, written, as he says, for "the theater's marginal voices season") to ask him to create a new sitcom.
She is tense, unsmiling, when asked about life today.
You could say the same of Lynne Ramsay's film, but, when she heightens the volume, she is tensing Joe's world like a piano tuner tautening a string, and making his headspace ever less endurable.
Whereas Noah had been so charismatic at that age, she said, Walt was "tense, humorless, somewhat sycophantic".
