"tense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After the last three long, tense hours, all of this seemed strangely unreal.
- They waited for hours, tense and anxious, barely moving except to string a bow.
- She was gone for two tense hours during which time I could do nothing but watch the hands of the clock.
- He could not tell, and a tense hour followed.
- It has been a rather tense few hours for all of us.
- Almost an hour passed and a tense hour it was!
- I spent a tense hour in my room above the club, dreaming of far stars.
- After several tense hours of waiting each other out, Jones finally decides to surface.
- The two chuckled, a welcome moment of relief after the last, tense hours.
- "You can't steal elections, particularly if you're outside coming in," he said after a few tense hours of waiting for the results.
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