Sentence examples for tense against from inspiring English sources

"Maybe it's the history, maybe it's the adrenaline, but it seems they're tense against the Yankees.

I hardly share Barnes's lust for Renoir, but I will now never forget that artist's exacerbating effect on Cézanne, whose cobbled form and pensive color tense against Renoir's work as if leaning into a hot, fragrant wind.

"You go to open a door, you've got discomfort, you tense against that movement and your pain will get worse".

I was still on London time, muscles tensed against cold skies, public transport and deadlines.

That it is beautiful amazes, with aesthetic detachment tensed against naked emotion.

"What education does she have?" Chris Albert then snarled, and tensed against his chair, as if trying to shake himself alert.

He seems to have treated his patients by employing a sort of hypnosis, breaking the cycle of pain by persuading the rest of the body to stop tensing against it, a technique used by modern pain therapists.

Ding had shown nothing but fight to reach the last four in Sheffield, most notably in surviving a last-frame thriller against Stuart Bingham in the second round and a tense fightback against Mark Selby in the quarter-finals.

The Bantams have not lost a match since a tense afternoon against Harvard on Feb. 22 , 1998

Rendell tells this tense story against the backdrop of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War and government sleaze.

Mark Selby won a tense encounter against John Higgins in York to reach the Betway UK Championship semi-finals.