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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(211) The chief acting honours, however, go to Jean Marsh as the tense but battle-hardened Miss Madrigal.
(212) In 1757 Woolman made a second journey into the South, where he found slave owners tense and even hostile to him.
(213) It was a long drive from the airport, made tedious by the unnatural, tense silence in the cab.
(214) Do you feel the person is especially silent, agitated or tense?
(215) The exercises in Chapter 3 are helpful for students learning the future tense.
(216) He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense.
(216) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
(217) When he sat down again there was a long, tense silence.
(218) Gazzer felt his tired body relax as the heat unknotted tense and aching muscles.
(219) A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt.
(220) As if struck by invisible lightning, she felt her whole body tense and prickle with reaction.
(221) Bernstein was unable to construct anything other than disjointed school-book phrases in the present tense.
(222) For instance, the past tense of regular verbs is expressed by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive.
(223) It was a tense moment for everyone because he couldn't control where he landed or his speed.
(224) You can see it in their eyes -- years of tense situations and busting cocaine mules.
(225) This is not to say that there have not been tense moments in the sub.
(226) My knees, drawn up and tense, push against my forehead.
(227) He had arrived late, which was unlike him, and seemed tense and irritable.
(228) When someone mentioned Andy's time in prison, the atmosphere grew tense.
(229) In the program, the hostages re-live the tense days they spent under guard in East Africa.
(230) She is too frightened, too tense, like a coiled creature ready to do harm.
(231) Laura and I sat in tense silence, listening to the creak of the stairs.
(232) I was becoming so tense that my head, neck and even my eyes were always so painful.
(233) You seem awfully tense - why don't you have a drink and try to relax?
(234) I was always tense, afraid I would miss the flight.
(235) After tense negotiations the idea of steaming in a circle was proposed.
(236) I tried parries, but they were tight, tense, and ineffective.
(237) In the same company, during tense labor negotiations, the power of the industrial relations department increases.
(238) The former wrote of the apostles in the past tense.
(239) For the next three weeks my career was in the past tense.
(240) Bjorn applied pressure in a tense finale by putting his drive on the fairway.
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