Many kibbutzim found it difficult to seal off large communal areas, and so youngsters spent tense nights at their parents' houses.

After their tense first night in New York, Sharon tried to relax.

That sight, in the middle of what had been a tense and exhausting night, caused the young engineer to burst out laughing.

I guess you could say that Jonny was a little more tense than usual that last night.

Investigators and frightened occupants of the house spend a tense night searching for the ghost.

It had been an extremely tense night, and he hadn't expected to survive it.

Forget all the elbows thrown on tense nights in the early 80's.

It was a very tense night around my TV set, I tell you.

After a tense night the Australians returned to the battlefield the following morning.

The soldiers signaled for him to turn around; it was a tense night in which there had been some shooting on the road.