TENSION in a Sentence
Learn TENSION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
57 example sentences for TENSION, such as:
1. It's just a release of tension.
2. The tension in the room had dissipated.
3. There is mounting tension along the border.
4. The city is being sundered by racial tension.
5. The tension in the Far East is building up again.
2. The tension in the room had dissipated.
3. There is mounting tension along the border.
4. The city is being sundered by racial tension.
5. The tension in the Far East is building up again.
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Meanings and Examples of TENSION
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tension
n. a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
n. (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 She strained forward trying to hear and soon she found her muscles aching from the tension.
2 They became more and more numerous as the weeks went by and as the tension in town heightened over negro outrages.
3 Now she began to feel the tension in the air and she wondered if it had been present all during the evening--and she too upset to notice it.
4 She was smiling back at him now, relaxing the tension of her attitude, and admitting him, by imperceptible gradations of glance and manner, a step farther toward intimacy.
5 She detected in him at once all the signs of extreme nervous tension.
6 She had not minded; she would loosen the matrimonial tension and be a fanciful girl for a time.
7 A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension.
8 His eyesight was shaken and dazzled by the tension of thought and muscle.
9 Between him and Connie there was a tension that each pretended not to notice, but there it was.
10 Dry, with the endless dry tension of will, they too were wearing out.
11 There it was: suddenly, the tension of keeping up her appearances fell from her.
12 There was tension till after coffee, when Hilda said she would go up to her room.
13 Nothing had been said during our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous tension within him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
14 The Journalist tried to relieve the tension by telling anecdotes of Hettie Potter.
15 "They certainly look cool," he said, with visible tension.
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 The border agreement was signed, the tension between the two countries began to ease off.
2 There is mounting tension along the border.
3 The tension in that story builds up toward a climax.
4 The incident has further increased tension between the two countries.
5 The city is being sundered by racial tension.
6 Local police are trying to defuse racial tension in the community.
7 The tension in the Far East is building up again.
8 The tension grew in inverse proportion to the distance from their final destination.
9 The tension between the two countries is likely to remain.
10 There's an indefinable air of tension at the meeting.
11 Recent developments in the area have brought latent ethnic tension out into the open.
12 It's just a release of tension.
13 All societies have social mechanisms for the release of tension.
14 I noticed a release of tension when he left the room.
15 The tension in the room had dissipated.