Exempel på tensely

• The tenants had refused to pay their rent and were tensely waiting for something nasty to happen.

• Tensely they waited, expecting to be discovered at any moment.

• Both sides tensely watched the totals in a painfully close vote.

• Nursing homes wait tensely for flu vaccine.

• On the stage he would stand stiffly, tensely in place.

• She was sitting tensely on the gilt chair.

• His eyes bulged in his head, his lips were tensely pursed.

• A separate unit houses another motor, across which four strips of oxidised 35 mm film are tensely looped.

• Not only that, its use pollutes the atmosphere in tensely.

• I am simply piecing together the evidence that there is to show that the opposition to this scheme is universal and tensely felt.

• The issue is debated tensely in the profession and feelings run high on both sides of the argument.

• In these last four digital projections, a large glass globe seesaws tensely back and forth over a central fulcrum.

• He removes his clothes and tensely waits for her.

• While listening, he leans forward tensely, with his hands clasped below his knees like a prizefighter waiting in his corner for the bell...