Sentence examples for were pretty tense from inspiring English sources

Things were pretty tense in Kinshasa when the Second Congo War kicked off.

Ultimately, they were able to diagnose the problem and get the power restored, but things were pretty tense for awhile.

The other passengers were pretty tense, and I think we were all hoping nothing awful was about to happen.

The other passengers were pretty tense and I think we were all hoping nothing awful was about to happen.

"It was pretty tense," he recalled in an interview.

Once in a while, classes could be pretty tense nonetheless.

"It was pretty tense, because everybody was picking at Barack and making suggestions.

He said the relationship between bikers and drivers in the city is "pretty tense".

This is pretty tense, as Fed proves with a weak backhand into the net for no reason.

"Since North Korea had the third nuclear test [in February], the relationship between China and North Korea has been pretty tense.

"It was pretty tense right up until we found the cartridges," Mike Burns, the C.E.O. of the marketing company Fuel Entertainment, told me after the dig.