Sentence examples for tense air from inspiring English sources

The khaki-colored earth, the tense air, the vanquished feeding on their permanent Civil War".

Now, a tense air of expectancy has descended on this city.

First broadcast in the aftermath of 9/11, the show, with its tense air of moment-to-moment exigency, once reflected the psychology of its time.

As Houston watched his jumper arch and fall into the net, a whistle cut through the tense air at Conseco Fieldhouse tonight.

Binney, who is six feet three, is a bespectacled sixty-seven-year-old man with wisps of dark hair; he has the quiet, tense air of a preoccupied intellectual.

Still, the fact that the meeting followed so quickly after this week's reaffirmation of the American position seemed to have given an unusually tense air to what might otherwise have been an uneventful gathering.

Today, a tense atmosphere in anticipation of more bad news and an air of sadness engulfed East Jerusalem in the aftermath of the Gaza attacks.

The night was getting wild, the air tense with expectation, as the crowd at a military academy here waited for the show's top act, three female Ivoirian dancers known as Les Tueuses, or The Killers.

But a robot from Swiss roboticists does the opposite: its little muscles tense when the air in them is removed.

The OTB in Chinatown was tense, and the air-conditioning was broken.

Both types of clothing elicited more of a response--tensing, sniffing the air, and moving away--than did unworn duds of the same color, but the reaction to Maasai smells was much stronger.