tenterhooks
see on tenterhooks.
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How to use tenterhooks in a sentence
Not to say Riva, the veteran screen star, is on tenterhooks.
Oscar’s 85-Year-Old Darling: A Talk With Emmanuelle Riva of ‘Amour’ | Tracy McNicoll | February 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTEvery attorney at his firm is hanging on tenterhooks waiting for the bonus announcements.
The D.C. Sex Blogger on How She Went From Slut to Housewife | Jessica Cutler | December 10, 2008 | THE DAILY BEASTHere he engaged a brakeman in conversation, and at last returned to the boys, who were on tenterhooks to learn of his findings.
The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers | Claude A. LabelleThe Marquis was having endless trouble with the plans for his stage-line and was keeping Packard on tenterhooks.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands | H. Hagedorn.I was on tenterhooks, and eventually checked the dissension almost brutally.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.2/3, 1836-1840 | Duchesse De Dino
They were on tenterhooks to know why we English should be so eager to take up their quarrel.
A Tatter of Scarlet | S. R. CrockettShe kept me on tenterhooks by asking it offensive questions: such as, "Oo know who give me that bonnet?"
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