"tension" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Palpable tension hung over the whole spaceport like a heavy cloak.
- The tension hung in the air as they listened to his car start and back out of the drive.
- A dangerous tension still hung about him, like a fog.
- The tension in the room hung like a smelly fog.
- Thus, whatever ethical tension the novel might have achieved hangs loose and baggy off the page.
- But even before they leave Paris, the tension between them hangs in the air like stale, sour static with nowhere to escape.
- The tension between Ralph and Jack hangs in the air.
- The tension hung in the attack center of the Chicago like the cigarette smoke that the ventilators would not entirely remove.
- An unpleasant tension hung over everything around us, like the calm before a storm.
- The seconds limped into eternity, and tension hung in the shuttle like smoke.
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