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• r  in a tense manner
  he sat down tensely

• She gets a job as a nanny, which consists mainly of civilizing Grayer (Nicholas Reese Art), the spoiled, emotionally retarded, but redeemable, offspring of a tensely striving .
• Police, newshawks, cameramen, bodyguardsmen, idlers, the President himself waited tensely for the picketers to arrive and be repulsed.
• In this tensely celibate world, Georges is shocked to discover that the classmate who first befriended him is having a love affair with another boy.

News & Articles

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• Breaking Bad’s George Mastras on the Train-Heist Sequence, the Year’s Most Suspenseful Scene
  A whistle blows. We pan out to see the beautiful, cactus-flecked Southwestern landscape, and follow that with POV shots from a train winding through a canyon, its wheels sweeping miles of sage brush. The camera swoops below the tracks to reveal Walt, Jesse, and Todd huddling together, tensely waiting to ... More »
  June 12, 2013 - Vulture

Quotes

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• Javed Miandad in ABC Online
  The matches have been so close and tensely fought that people not only in England but in other cricket-playing nations are totally involved in its outcome,Miandad, who played 124 matches for his country, said on Friday.
• John Le Carre in Washington Post
  On a day when the entire nation was listening to the radio, when an entire nation was waiting tensely to hear if Gilad will return, if a deal is on, what its price would be; on a day when we - as a responsible opposition - without even being asked,... Dalia Itzik http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalia_Itzik&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFOw3r7dZUw9YYwzVLBF7Vin7Zyiw Jerusalem Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1261364485243%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGpv_OkONvkbq1yLgrgSIHygIuw-Q Dec 23, 2009 98973 131277 tenseness During the Cold War, every crossing point from East to West had the tenseness of a major surgical operation," wrote John le Carré in "Smiley's People," a classic novel of East-West skullduggery.