"tense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was a slight twitch in the tense lines around the soldier's mouth.
- Jo felt her lips compressing into a tense, hard line.
- He recognized anxiety in the tense lines of her body.
- I saw Allan's jaw set in a tense line as we followed.
- The horse moved forward, reluctance in every tense line of his body.
- They waited 40 minutes in a tight, tense line before they got a close look at the shoes.
- Aim at her tops,' he called again down the tense line of waiting gun-crews.
- He looked thinner, and his face had tired, tense lines in it she hadn't noticed before.
- Nor did she put into words that denial he could read in every tense line of her body.
- She looked at the boys and pressed her lips together in a tense line.
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