"tense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Several tense minutes followed until finally the phone bell rang.
- We watched in silence for several tense minutes while the top was peeled back.
- For a few tense minutes, there was no answer, only the sound of the wind behind him.
- For a few tense, strange minutes he was nowhere to be found.
- After a few tense minutes of waiting, Joe got through to his father's operative.
- After five tense minutes, this was the first piece of good news.
- I had a tense few minutes when the guard changed outside.
- The waves had come on us so suddenly that the ship took several long, tense minutes to turn into them.
- And so the talk went on, reaching back, for some rather tense minutes, to her childhood.
- After many silent, tense minutes she lifted her head slowly.
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