Sentence examples for tense mounting from inspiring English sources
This portrait of dangerously edgy, middle-class adolescents is often very funny as well as chilling, with quirky non-sequiturs in its dialogue alongside a tense, mounting sense of doom.
The tense recount, with litigation mounting from both sides, has echoes of the 2000 presidential race in the state that saw a recount drag on for weeks.
Over the course of five tense, often violent episodes, we watch with mounting fear as these two individuals find their worlds getting closer.
A full set of shakes, rattles and rolls goes on in those tense minutes before swimmers mount the blocks.
In the recently mounted exhibition, Tenses, the Studio Museum presents art made by its latest artists-in-residence, who see Marshall, McKenzie, and Beasley as influences.
For several tense moments as the mayor mounted the steps in freezing rain, nothing happened and the officers stood loosely.
There was a tense wait as cases began to mount at the hospital, but with our co-ordination in the regional capital, Bukavu, working the phones, we finally got the green light.
In tense opening exchanges Murdoch revealed he had mounted no investigation when Brooks told parliament seven years ago that the News of the World had paid police officers for information.
