"tension" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Its tension holds tight even while it ridicules conventions of the genre.
- His body relaxed, as if only tension and pain had been holding his bones together.
- I had not known, until then, how much tension my body held; even the bath had not assuaged it.
- They held each other's gaze, tension held between them like a tight wire.
- For a moment the tension between them held.
- There was quiet, and a tension as if too many of those around her had held their breath for too long.
- Anni just kept staring down, the tension holding her spine stiff.
- Enough tension, perhaps, to hold the reader's attention for a chapter or two, but not an entire novel.
- The slight tension between the poles holds them steady against the trunk.
- The tension in Frost's body as he held me told me more clearly than any words that I wasn't the only one who would miss Galen.
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