Sentence examples for was tense about from inspiring English sources

Before Game 5, Girardi would not acknowledge that he was tense about what could happen.

Meghan Collard, 9, said her mother was tense about the test because, as a college professor, she cared about such things.

Each of the women is tense about her own problems.

Everyone I know is tense about New Year's Eve.

What would chimps have to be tense about?

And the Sienese certainly have a lot to be tense about.

The American male, regardless of whether he's of a conservative or liberal stripe, is tense about his cleavage.

The atmosphere was tense: earlier that day, about 20 uniformed policemen had rounded up the homeless situated throughout the square and loaded them into three large buses.

Her jaw was tense, and her eyes kept darting about as if she could not focus on anything for long.

For weeks before the Islamic State takeover, the atmosphere had been tense in Bartella, about 10 miles east of Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq that was overrun in June.

You think things will flow but they're tense; you're trying to think about hitting and being hit back.