tensely

Example Sentences

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In the oil painting, a young woman in a red dress sits on the edge of a motel bed, gripping the footboard tensely.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

Grand and in-your-face, it keeps surging from hushed, tensely vibrating simmers to piercing instrumental and vocal roars.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2024

While waiting tensely for further news, the Shah said that he planned before his flight last Sunday to go to Azerbaijan, in northern Iran.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

But in fact, it’s a very big deal, taking place at a tensely pivotal moment.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2023

Nina Slovokhotova, the 586th’s chief of chemical services, watched and waited tensely that night with the rest of the regiment.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein