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1- She waited tensely for the next bulletin.

2- She was sitting tensely on the gilt chair.

3- DAVID is staring tensely out of the window.

4- She waited tensely for him to appear.

5- She waited tensely for it to happen.

6- They stood tensely watching, their attention fixed on the boy.

7- Sam and Norman face each other tensely across the front desk.

8- He stood by her elbow, and smiled tensely .

9- tensely , people watch for the hurricane’s arrival.

10- tensely they waited, expecting to be discovered at any moment.

11- Fools, he thought tensely , one and all.

12- George said tensely , “Don’t think this is a joke.

13- As she washed, she listened tensely for the sounds of movement.

14- His father devours the paper, sitting tensely upright in the elongated armchair.

15- Despair choked her as she waited tensely for him to join her.

16- Her breasts heaving, her throat dry, she strained tensely to release herself.

17- He watched her, tensely ; his eyes were those of a five-year-old.

18- All the children in the hall were watching tensely , waiting for something to happen.

19- A tensely exciting novel of what happened behind the scenes of a big-money quiz program.

20- Hazel and Silver watched tensely .

21- The cat hisses, its body tensely arched, hairs on end, ears pulled back.

22- Flexing his fingers so that they popped with the cold, he looked around tensely .

23- The watchers all waited tensely for the first word, the first greeting between the two.

24- He sat tensely , guarding himself for one false word or gesture that might dry her up.

25- tensely , the airmen looked below and saw the crowded train reach the North Queensferry side in safety.

26- As German forces streamed through the Rupel Pass, the Royal Air Force waited tensely for news.

27- Leanly but purposefully orchestrated , it is marked by a tensely repressed sensuality and some beautifully modulated vocal writing.

28- Squinting tensely through the darkness, they watched the figure drawing nearer, walking steadily toward them between the graves.

29- Eliot was” tall, gaunt, of pallid hue and tensely withdrawn from anything reminiscent of the flesh”.

30- Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles: the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic.

31- As Kelley tensely works the tassels, her husband’s back straightens and his feet come off the coffee table.

32- He poured himself a cup of tea and drank it, selfconsciously, very aware of her sitting tensely beside him.

33- Paddy Cosgrove, councillor and barrister, in candidates’ pinstripes, sits tensely on the edge of his plastic chair.

34- As the room fell suddenly, tensely silent, he began to walk, to hobble painfully and with difficulty towards Sabine.

35- Hazel, sensing at once that they had nothing in common with himself and his companions, started and sat up tensely .

36- Though the film lasts over two hours, Hayedeh Safiyari’s fast-moving editing keeps the action tensely involving from start to finish.

37- Fletch knocks on the door, and a tensely white-faced Mrs. Stanwyk quickly lets him in and shuts the door behind him.

38- It was my rest day but I knew how many aircraft had taken off, and as the sky lightened with the early summer dawn, we waited tensely in Hut 4 for them to return.

39- She smiled tensely .

40- The battle scenes between the Enterprise and Reliant are tensely directed, a highlight not only of this movie but the entire ‘Star Trek’ series.

41- Jonas, said that you’d – er – had to take over the family business when you were very young,’ she offered tensely .

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