Sentence examples for tense hanging from inspiring English sources

The four of us lean forward, fingers on buzzers, scrabbling after answers, tense, hanging on by our fingertips.

The cinematic trope's popularity has nothing to do with the deep significance of hands and everything to do with the tense drama of life hanging by a thread, helpless and utterly dependent.

The thought of what she threw away makes her tense and her tiny feet, hanging over the bar stool, clench into claws.

Wigan thought they had scored again when the centre Anthony Gelling re-gathered his own kick to touch down but the try was disallowed by video referee Richard Silverwood for obstruction and that set up a tense finale, with the Warriors hanging on at the end.

But after three or so minutes of tense singing, as if she were hanging on to control by her fingertips, Ms. Sullivan ends the song with a sigh: "It was me making pancakes in the morning".

That set up a tense finish and Millwall were left hanging on at the end.

It was another tense Olympic moment, with a gold medal hanging in the balance.

Others seem oddly unconnected to the image, as if the writer were jotting a terse, sometimes tense afterthought that leaves a larger narrative hanging.

He constructs short, tense scenes that often end abruptly, with a nasty implication hanging in the air.

You don't want to be a blue-eyed, blond six-footer with a telephoto lens hanging round your neck when a column of tense, heavily armed rebels come round the corner expecting to meet their mortal enemies.

When the police finally got Jimmy Melvin Jr. out of a seedy motel room in Bedford, Nova Scotia following a tense six-hour standoff in July 2006, they must have been hanging their heads in shame.