The longshore crew stood ready to hit the release catches; tension pulled the meter-thick sisal taut, squeezing water in a steady flow out of the fibers.

How would the tensions pull in this new pattern, one thread against another?

She looked round almost wildly, her hands clenching and unclenching as tension pulled every nerve tight.

The tension in the string immediately pulls it back toward equilibrium, but soon overshoots, so that the string bows in the opposite direction.

Next, tension again pulls the string back toward equilibrium, but again overshoots, and the cycle continues until the string finally comes to rest.

West stopped; barely controlled tension pulled him around in his tracks.

A slight tension pulled at Atkins's cheek, as if he were smiling at Phaethon's presumption.

Despite the tensions pulling the commission apart, many believe the commission will and should hold together because, as Mr. Stewart of New Zealand said, "it's all you've got."

The tension pulled the cable pod forward-and-down, the Shuttle backward-andup.

I felt her warm against my back, and tension pulled my muscles tight one by one as the tingling started high in my neck and trickled lower.