Sentence examples for tense quiet from inspiring English sources
The phrase "tense quiet" is not a standard expression in written English and may be confusing to readers.
It could be used to describe a situation where there is a quiet atmosphere filled with tension, but it is not commonly recognized. Example: "The room fell into a tense quiet as everyone awaited the announcement."
I liked Du Yun's "When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa," whose serene opening turns frenetically aggressive before retreating back into tense quiet.
A tense quiet settled over Cairo as the city braced for new protests by supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, after the Friday Prayer.
Reflecting on the tense quiet in cities where the government remains or has regained control, a Syrian activist based in Beirut, Shakeeb Al-Jabri, observed on Twitter: "Regime forces have become occupation forces".
So when the air-raid siren pierced the tense quiet at lunchtime on Monday and several rockets roared toward the city, Ruti Toledano, 55, stopped cutting apples for a cake, she said, and ran with her grandchildren to a communal bomb shelter near her house.
As many as a million people have already fled Abidjan, the United Nations said, and on Thursday residents described the city as tense, quiet and deserted, with periodic bursts of gunfire, explosions and sightings of pickup trucks full of Mr. Gbagbo's armed militiamen circulating downtown.
This ability to shift seamlessly from tense, quiet dialogue into explosive bombast became, arguably, the show's greatest strength.
Southern Yemen remained tense, but quiet on Tuesday, security officials said.
With monsoon rains falling and the investigation blocking parts of the city, Mumbai was tense but quiet on Thursday.
By Sunday night, Osh was tense but quiet as the authorities appeared to have had some success in restoring order.
Douma and several other cities where there were large demonstrations on Friday, including Lattakia and Homs, were tense but quiet after a series of funerals, residents said.
The room was tense but quiet; it felt far from the demonstrations at Logan International Airport, just a few miles away, where protesters — including Senator Elizabeth Warren and Marty Walsh, the mayor of Boston — crowded one terminal.
