Sentence examples for tense trip from inspiring English sources

The actual proposal took place during a tense trip to the seaside.

On a tense trip to Israel last year, the vice president was blindsided by an Israeli announcement that settlement construction would resume.

The Russian proposal came days after Mr. Obama returned from a tense trip to St . Petersburg where Mr. Putin hosted a meeting of the Group of 20 and rallied opposition to any American strike on Syria.

Administration officials are counting on Mr. Putin to support their efforts in the Middle East, Iran and North Korea, but say they are going into this tense trip with open eyes.

Then, late one night last summer during a tense trip home, she finally gave in to the impulse, cutting off her hair in her parents' bathroom and using a Bic razor to finish the job.

When not assaulting us with noise – during which he repeats "don't panic" – Blunt prowls the stage in professorial clothes, no effects on his flat voice, performing a sort of tense trip hop from a place of cold, coiled anger, his only banter a shout-out to "any Aborigines in the audience".

Anthony Mann's historical film noir "The Tall Target," which I discuss in this clip, dramatizes those divisions efficiently and emotionally, distilling the coming furies of the Civil War into a single tense train trip in which a New York police detective, played by Dick Powell, attempts to thwart a plot on Lincoln's life.

The return to the Washington fray came after a tense overseas trip punctuated by an extraordinary showdown with the meeting's host, President Vladimir V. Putin, who not only opposes a strike, but also dismisses the notion that Syria's government gassed its own people.

At the very least I'd be tense the whole trip.

The episode occurred as Mr. Panetta was arriving in Afghanistan on an already tense two-day trip, the first by a senior member of the Obama administration since an American soldier reportedly killed 16 Afghan civilians, mostly children and women, in Kandahar Province, which is next to Helmand.

But too much of it can make the trip tense and frustrating -- that's the last thing you want on a beer tour.