Sentence examples for tense preparations from inspiring English sources

Cherry Healey spends months sitting in on John Lewis's long, tense preparations for Christmas.

It happened when the lamb saddle was brought in for the final preparations, the tense 15-minute ritual that seemed to combine equal parts adrenaline and exacting, fast-fingered work.

Get a firm grip and tense your muscles in preparation for the exercise.

Fight week in Vegas can be a tense time for fighters as their many weeks of preparation lead them towards the only half hour or so that matters.

The latter contest proved to be ideal preparation for her meeting with Rybarikova, a tense baseline encounter punctuated by repeated breaks of serve.

As the atmosphere around the case grew more tense, Ms. Reno met with senior law-enforcement officials to discuss the preparations under way to carry out a tactical operation in Miami.

But relations between the plain-spoken Mr. Knepper and the notoriously volatile Mingus were often tense, and they came to an abrupt and violent turning point during preparations for a New York concert in 1962.

The preparation process for college can be a long, arduous and even tense task.

After tense discussions, the Pentagon kept the Delta trailer, which was set up at Fort Bragg last fall in preparation for the war with Iraq.

Mr. Gore spent some of that tense summer in Memphis, taking a course in Tennessee history at Memphis State, probably on some level in preparation for a career in politics, though at the time he felt completely disillusioned.

In a series of tense meetings throughout June, the two sides repeatedly failed to produce an agreement, and countries began to make economic preparations for a potential Greek default.