"tension escalates" is a grammatically correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when the tension of a situation is increasing or becoming higher. Example: As the clock ticked down, the tension in the room escalated.
Their terrible secret festers and itches, and the erotic tension escalates.
As David Oyelowo so correctly points out, if Britain's history is continually whitewashed, its stories ignored, is it any wonder that ignorance prevails and racial tension escalates?
As the tension escalates over when and how the parallel bubble will finally burst, the screenplay by John C. Richards (who wrote the story) and James Flamberg attains a sublime comic delicacy.
On the live version of Soft Winds, the tension escalates behind Mobley; Blakey and Silver switch off when the trumpet takes over, then build inexorably until the performance reaches its emotional peak.
Once his grandson arrives home, the tension escalates yet again, and here Brown skillfully depicts how terrifying nature and human nature alike can be: "Cotton didn't even think about calling out.
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, will hold talks in Washington on Tuesday with President Barack Obama as tension escalates in the Middle East after a weekend of violence and with little sign of an imminent return to direct peace talks with the Palestinians.
The tension escalating with every stroke, del Potro saved three of them.
A few days later, Mrs. Zegerman found an unopened box of rat poison near the potted phlox beside her welcome mat, and the tension escalated from there.
The tension escalated in 1998, when Wasserman published a lengthy introduction to a reissue of Marx's "Communist Manifesto" by the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm.
With gasoline prices surging, Middle East tension escalating and interest in electric cars increasing, some consumers are questioning their faith in internal combustion.
Tension escalated until September 2001 when it boiled over into riots that engulfed the whole city and was replayed in rural areas.
