Synonym: rigid, strained, taut, tight. Antonym: flabby. Similar words: intense, sense, dense, incense, offense, license, expense, defense. Meaning: [tens] 
n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. v. 1. become stretched or tense or taught 2. increase the tension on 3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy 4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. adj. 1. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension 2. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') 3. taut or rigid; stretched tight.
n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. v. 1. become stretched or tense or taught 2. increase the tension on 3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy 4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. adj. 1. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension 2. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') 3. taut or rigid; stretched tight. 
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(181) Wilkinson was the first to leave, walking out of the room abruptly and looking somewhat tense.
(182) He scanned her tense expression, his eyes crinkled up against the sun.
(183) Even at that distance, I could see that his mood was dark, his face tense.
(184) I can feel you're really tense in your lower back.
(185) They looked horrible and gave their fans some unnecessarily tense moments.
(186) Rafah, the home of many of the murdered labourers, was especially tense.
(186) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
(187) It was a long, tense moment as they adjusted the ropes and wrestled with the banner in their precarious position.
(188) The atmosphere inside the plane immediately became tense, five pairs of eyes scanned the starry sky, they could see nothing.
(189) I sat in the right seat with my hands and feet near the controls, waiting, tense, scared.
(190) She was tense, almost afraid to breathe, almost afraid to meet his gaze.
(191) The negotiations became increasingly tense as the weeks went by.
(192) Piers took a step towards her, and she felt her body tense and her heart begin to beat quickly.
(193) Every time you find a patient talking in past tense instead of present tense he is not returned to an incident.
(194) Complete the sentences using either the simple past or present perfect tense of the verbs.
(195) This problem is accentuated by pilots being very tense and mis-timing the stick movements.
(196) Are there any significant departures from the use of the simple past tense?
(197) To do this you can read texts, making systematic changes of person, tense, and vocabulary items.
(198) To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. Pearl Bailey 
(199) I can vividly remember the tense atmosphere prevailing amongst all Washington crews during December 1952 and January 1953.
(200) It's a tense moment not helped by the failure of the electrical apparatus to fire the devices.
(201) She felt grubby, tired and, now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage, sickeningly tense.
(202) Some shuffle and bustle along, with stiff, tense movements, head poking forward.
(203) In front of tense townspeople she blurted out words that a Bible commonwealth had to condemn.
(204) A tense situation prevailed for the vote, as 5,000 troops and riot police stood in a state of preparedness.
(205) Children will be pulled in two directions between their natural parents and may well have tense relationships with their step-parents.
(206) Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. Sarah Dessen
(207) Try not to tense the muscles so hard that you produce cramp or pain.
(208) Switching from the future to the present tense has other advantages.
(209) If you fail to experience tension you must try to develop your own exercise which serves to tense that particular muscle group.
(210) The generally tense atmosphere also gave rise to perceptual errors.
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