Example Sentences

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“I can feel the tenseness, don’t put too much stress on yourself. You have people all around you.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2025

“Her physique is tightly knit, her style, although often surprisingly delicate, has a tenseness, a dynamic potential” that produces “excitement rather than unalloyed lyricism.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

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

He felt the tenseness flow gradually from him.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright