Sentence examples for the tense time from inspiring English sources

Now it was the fourth quarter, the tense time, when the game often hangs in the balance.

ONE must roll hard to survive in Los Angeles during the tense times preceding an awards season.

Norstad, for instance, was the NATO commander in Europe in the tense times when the Berlin Wall was going up, in 1961.

She remembers the tense times when the Berkut riot police announced they would clear the square and protesters waited in the night.

For many people here, the day's events recalled the tense times in the early part of the last decade when the city, including the subway, was hit with several terrorist attacks.

"I'm sure that during the tense times, some of the boats that left New Bedford may be finding it convenient to do business in Boston or elsewhere until the strike is over," said Mayor John K. Bullard of New Bedford.

But the reaction in Los Angeles was as much an insight into the tense times that have gripped this region since Dec. 2, when an attack 50 miles from here left 14 people dead and 22 injured.

The grandson recalls the tense times and how his grandfather was besieged by people when the family went out to eat.

Hence, when he won on Sunday with an airtight display at the tensest time, he celebrated getting the dreaded monkey off his back almost as much as the victory itself.

Couples who can respond to each other's stress in a way that is soothing rather than in a way that exacerbates it tend to be able to weather the tenser times.

Bennett, who has been fiercely critical of Netanyahu but whose party's support in parliament has prevented the leader from losing a one-seat majority, said he would delay during this tense time for the country.