"tense body" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person who seems to be experiencing anxiety or discomfort, or when describing a person who is preparing to do something difficult or confrontational. For example, "The teacher tensed her body before entering the room full of unruly students."
They stand, tense body to tense body, for a moment.
With his ferretlike eyes; thin, unsmiling lips; and tense body language, Martin is such a cold fish he can barely manage a smile.
The former England coach's taut, tense body language betrayed the reality that, had his side suffered yet another stumble, McClaren could well have been sacked.
As for the familiar, Davis Robertson had just the right mix of tense body alignment and animalistic fervor in his faune with an intense gaze.
In his understated way, Mr. McPherson suggests that Mary is an emotionally damaged woman who has learned to live with her half-healed fractures and wounds, an impression reinforced by Ms. Gallagher's pinched face and tense body language.
The aides came rushing outside, and you could see the stunned reactions in their ashen faces, their tense body language and their nervous thumbs typing out information on their BlackBerrys.
When we race through our days, ignoring the physical symptoms and mental anguish that can accompany stress, we miss the opportunity to give ourselves a much-needed rest, to regroup and to calm our racing minds and tense bodies.
A stiff or tense upper body can be detrimental to your performance.A loose upper body will help you play cleaner, faster and with more ease and flexibility.
As a last resort, she tried biofeedback, a machine that beeps the more tense the body grows.
His tense swivelling body looks as if it's being sucked into the memory of some dangerous jungle battle.
This is a woman is in the middle of a breakdown, and it shows in every bone of her tense, brittle body.
