"tension" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Overall the drive is a success, but tensions finally boil over upon the group's return to the ranch.
- Tension boiled within him, and he wanted to lash out against something.
- Tensions boiled over when a demonstration on 24 September was attacked by the police.
- Tensions quickly mounted and, on July 31, boiled over into the rooftop fight.
- It was inevitable that these tensions would boil over once he was gone.
- The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering, boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late.
- These tensions continued into the mid-20th century and finally boiled over into armed conflict in the spring of 1969.
- Tensions finally boiled over when the Ikwhan rebelled in 1927.
- The resulting tensions here have at times boiled over into violent clashes between gangs of young people and security forces.
- Last year, the team's internal tensions boiled over when Griffin punched Shine after a game.
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