Sentence examples for tension grip from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kuti's slow-burning "Tension Grip Africa," from his 2008 record, "Day by Day" (Downtown), is an especially remarkable peak in his recent catalog.

Already in the marketplace is Aladdinpower, a hand-held generator that looks something like a tension grip from a home gym and sells for $59.95.

The dispute underscores a larger tension gripping the trading commission.

By the final chapters, tension grips like a vice, and you're still reading at 3am.

A similar tension grips the other modern Wagner controversy--the unofficial ban on Wagner's music in Israel.

Tension gripped the previously rampant racket of the Frenchman as he blasted a forehand long for 4-0.

As tension gripped the country, the army stepped up its presence in major cities, in case the rebels strike first.

Britain revived political power-sharing in Northern Ireland this morning after a 24-hour suspension as new tension gripped the province's Good Friday peace accord.

And when, just half an hour outside Dublin, I found myself hurtling down one-and-a-half-lane roads, tension gripped my upper body as I negotiated my way around oncoming cars.

Critics disliked a pleasureless tension gripping his films, whether it be The Nightcomers (1971), a prequel to The Turn of the Screw; Won Ton Ton – The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); or Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval (1989).

Sisif and Elie each discovers that he is madly in love with the innocent Norma, and an atmosphere of guilt, jealousy and queasy sexual tension grips the small household.