tensely

I could feel he was still tensely waiting for something.

Joe did not move, but tensely looked around the room.

He waited tensely to see which of them had been right.

Father and son waited tensely for nearly half an hour.

He made himself tensely concentrate on the business at hand.

All the children in the hall were watching tensely, waiting for something to happen.

He began to pace tensely in the small area between us.

It is for this that they have been waiting so tensely.

I sat on my hands, tensely waiting for him to begin another activity.

Instead, she held herself still and asked tensely, "What do you mean?"

"He was the only man who could have helped Dad," the girl said tensely.

Finally she looked back at Kirk, who was watching her tensely.

They stood tensely watching, their attention fixed on the boy.

"This is a matter for our government now, son," he said tensely.

Then she turned back to the vampire who was standing tensely in the middle of the room.

Blade held herself tensely, waiting for him to continue, but he said nothing more.

"Talking about it will only make you have the bad dream again," her mother explained tensely.

She waited tensely; then decided to go out into the hall again.

His eyes followed her around the apartment; tensely, as if she were dangerous.

Everyone waited tensely to hear what she had to say, most of them prepared not to like it.

They dropped below and tensely moved forward into the darkness.

"I feel as though we're being followed," he said tensely.

Still, we did not see him and the radio remained tensely silent.

Sandy and her parents waited tensely in the living room.

There will be the most tensely wild battle between boys and girls.