Example Sentences

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Foot by foot, we pushed and pulled the wagon with Dragonwings up the hill, its wings dipping and bobbing as if it were tensing itself.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Something of this was passing in confusion through his mind while his more conscious faculties were tensing his body for the fatal impact he knew must come.

From The Finding of Haldgren by Diffin, Charles Willard

But here in the storage vault nothing should have moved, and Gefty's muscles were tensing as his head came around.

From The Winds of Time by Brotman, Adolph E.