Sentence examples for tense place from inspiring English sources

Baghdad, even now, is an extremely tense place.

In October , 2001 Manhattan was a tense place to work.

"Nairobi is a slightly tense place now," Githongo says.

In the nineteen-eighties, Nigeria went from being the hope of Africa to being a poor and perpetually tense place.

It is a pretty tense place in which to part with your cash and the distractions are multiple.

The Gare du Nord, the great cast-iron train station at the northern end of Paris, has always been a tense place — tendu, as the French say.

In the summer of 1989, this rural area was one of the most tense places in the world, as central Europeans tested the will of Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin to preserve the Soviet empire.

Falluja remains one of the tensest places in Iraq, even after the marines agreed last month to pull out of the city and allow an all-Iraqi security force to patrol the streets.

"It's not that complicated," the mayor said in his office, a tense, busy place as he reaches out to church, business and civic leaders to treat what he sadly terms a traumatic wound.

I was in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, a tense, angry place at any time during the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was then reaching the height of the second Palestinian intifada.

Placing your character in a tense situation or location is an important way to create drama.