After the last three long, tense hours, all of this seemed strangely unreal.

They waited for hours, tense and anxious, barely moving except to string a bow.

She was gone for two tense hours during which time I could do nothing but watch the hands of the clock.

He could not tell, and a tense hour followed.

It has been a rather tense few hours for all of us.

Almost an hour passed and a tense hour it was!

I spent a tense hour in my room above the club, dreaming of far stars.

After several tense hours of waiting each other out, Jones finally decides to surface.

The two chuckled, a welcome moment of relief after the last, tense hours.

"You can't steal elections, particularly if you're outside coming in," he said after a few tense hours of waiting for the results.