Sentence examples for shoulders tense from inspiring English sources

Leib and Spector flanked her in pale prom tuxes, Leib tall, dark, handsome, broad-shouldered, Spector short, his chin weak, his shoulders tense and cramped: an undisguisable high-school nerd, under his pompadour obviously already losing his hair, his thin tenor pulling away from his own song as if he were afraid of his own voice.

your head pounds, your shoulders tense, your eyelids droop.

That is when your shoulders tense and you lean toward the screen.

"You wake up in the morning with shoulders tense and head aching because you didn't sleep the night before from worrying".

On one long expedition drive, Cabrol stared out the window, her shoulders tense with what I realized was anticipation only when we crested a rise and saw the first dark peaks of volcanoes before us.

The TV anchors looked exactly the way we knew they'd look, their faces urgent, their hair neat, their shoulders tense, they were filling us with alarm but also assuring us that everything was under control, for they, too, had been prepared for this, in a sense had been waiting for it, already they were looking back at themselves during their great moment.

His shoulders tensed as he fell against lorry wall, then horse, lorry wall, then horse.

Mr. Penn, his eyes darting as if in anticipation of another blow, his shoulders tensed to return it, is almost beyond praise.

When I watch students take tests, I see quite a few of them hunching their shoulders, tensing their foreheads, tightening their jaws, bobbing their legs up and down, wrapping their feet around their chairs, and chewing their pencils.

Your shoulders get tense, your palms get sweaty, and your stomach tightens.

Dancers in coarse tunics moved like peasants rather than princes and princesses: their shoulders were tense, their limbs awkwardly angled.