Sentence examples for tense struggle from inspiring English sources

In a sometimes tense struggle, both players lost their composure late in the match.

The top-seeded Americans survived what became a tense struggle of spectacular shotmaking and remarkably few unforced errors.

It brings into focus a cohort of abolitionists who were engaged in a tense struggle with practitioners of the rising disciplines of biology and ethnology.

Actually, Whyte scored the empty netter, icing a tense struggle between two teams who had previously split 14 games since Oct. 25.

After he had fallen behind positionally, Tate fought back with superb tactical skill, and Benjamin had to match him blow for blow to win a tense struggle.

The last thing large and strong athletes can afford to do in the emotion of tense struggle is react with unfiltered ferocity.

Family members are locked in tense struggles over inheritances.

Here, Kim has sometimes seemed tense, struggling to land her triple flip in training, while Asada possesses the more difficult triple axel.

In many regions, including here in the inland Northwest, tense struggles have erupted over whether the Republican apparatus will co-opt these new coalitions or vice versa.

Nelson describes the tense struggles in Chicago in the 1880s and '90s over labor organizing, punctuated by the 1886 Haymarket bombing, riot, and subsequent hanging of anarchists.

A great deal of the drama in these books comes from this present-tense struggle.