Example Sentences

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Many an airline passenger has tensed uneasily as lightning streaked the sky and the eerie blue glow of static electricity outlined the wing tips and propellers.

From Time Magazine Archive

She doesn’t respond and her body has tensed up.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson