Example Sentences

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“I understood the frustration of the community, that tenseness and the build up of the community. I didn’t agree with the way it was carried out, but I understood it,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

These incidents leave “an underlying anger and tenseness in people,” Holz says.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2021

In a meta-analysis performed by a team led by psychologist Bella DePaulo, 14 of 50 nonverbal characteristics were observed to be more frequently associated with lying, most especially dilated pupils and tenseness.

From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2021

Wallace and Twyford have a responsibility, too, to allow us to intuit some measure of feeling rekindled, to activate the tenseness, and at present this aspect feels underdeveloped.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2019

Alfred felt the tenseness in Donatelli's arm, pressed against his own, and the ice ball grew larger and colder.

From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte