"tension" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The longshore crew stood ready to hit the release catches; tension pulled the meter-thick sisal taut, squeezing water in a steady flow out of the fibers.
- How would the tensions pull in this new pattern, one thread against another?
- She looked round almost wildly, her hands clenching and unclenching as tension pulled every nerve tight.
- The tension in the string immediately pulls it back toward equilibrium, but soon overshoots, so that the string bows in the opposite direction.
- Next, tension again pulls the string back toward equilibrium, but again overshoots, and the cycle continues until the string finally comes to rest.
- West stopped; barely controlled tension pulled him around in his tracks.
- A slight tension pulled at Atkins's cheek, as if he were smiling at Phaethon's presumption.
- Despite the tensions pulling the commission apart, many believe the commission will and should hold together because, as Mr. Stewart of New Zealand said, "it's all you've got."
- The tension pulled the cable pod forward-and-down, the Shuttle backward-andup.
- I felt her warm against my back, and tension pulled my muscles tight one by one as the tingling started high in my neck and trickled lower.
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