All the tensions of the evening dissolved into amity and song.

The tension didn't entirely dissolve, but each officer made a laudable effort not to contribute to its increase.

Anyway, the tension dissolved in her bed that night; we were getting to be like a regular married couple.

The tension that she felt dissolved like morning mist melting under warm sunlight.

The tensions which had driven her out on the long day's walk had dissolved and were gone.

After a few minutes, all tensions dissolved away, and he entered the timeless state of total relaxation.

The audience, he said, "went nuts," and the tension dissolved.

Her mother's tension, indeed the whole family's, dissolved in the warmth of his humor.

So they believe the tension has already dissolved.

The tension that had ridden him since he first looked into his new life-mate's empty eyes dissolved.