Sentence examples for tense battle from inspiring English sources

Both sides lacking quality From the first whistle this was an enthralling, tense battle.

Instead, she is fighting a tense battle to stop the talks from collapsing.

But Seton Hall prevailed Sunday, 66-64, in a tense battle of intrastate rivals.

He won a tense battle to the last second today in the San Marino Grand Prix.

The whole exchange was friendly and smiling and a refreshing moment in a tense battle to reach a Wimbledon final.

Alongside tense battle scenes and bloody, tearful images, "Conflict Zone" features glimpses of the day-to-day.

Two unidentified telephone bidders fought a tense battle, and when it ended, the packed salesroom burst into thunderous applause.

It merely set the stage for a tense battle over the remainder of the season and the conference tournament ahead.

KATHARINE GRAHAM, the publisher of The Washington Post who died in 2001, backed her editors through tense battles during the Watergate era.

But by night, it becomes clear why the Mission is at the center of one of the most tense battles over the future of San Francisco in decades.

Players had to use actual battlefield strategies to move squads of soldiers to success in dramatic, tense battles that were viewed, in the manner of the genre, from above.