Every time he snapped a glance their way from up under his brows he saw that they were tensed and watching Freddy and him as two cats might watch a couple of mice.
That was the thought that raced and circled about in Dave’s brain as he stood there tensed in front of von Stutgardt’s Luger.
And so he watched the small plane wing in close, but he sat stiff and taut in the seat, and every nerve and muscle was tensed for instantaneous, lightning fast action.
They stood tensed and anxious until the pebbles stopped falling and a silence like that of a tomb, so profound as to seem thick and dense, invaded the hollows; then Dick started out into the shaft.
The lines of his heavy jaw appeared to deepen, his shoulders lifted a trifle, as if the muscles of him had suddenly tensedfor combat, and his lips had a trace of the imperious sneer.
Even as Jud tensed his muscles for the crash, the rebound and undertow of the waters, hurled back from the face of the rock, caught the boat and whirled it safely to one side of the boulder.
Only the instinctive quickness of Joe's muscles, tensed and trained by many a danger, saved him.
When Rambler rose gamely to it, with tensed muscles and forefeet flung forward to catch the bank beyond, he knew it better.
He went boldly, though his muscles were tensed and his eyes alert for surprises.
He distrusted Deveny, for he had seen the half-formed determination in the man's eyes, and his muscles were tensed in anticipation of a trick.
He was suppressing it with an effort, but it showed in his tensed muscles and in his flushed face.
For a long minute the officers stood with tensed nerves, every eye riveted upon the bushes from whence the ominous sound had issued.
For an instant her appeal, of swimming blue eyes, upturned face, tensed grasp, breaking voice, swayed me.
She had forbidden, and I kept my eyes upon them, until they were half-way, and in exultation I pulled the trigger, my hand already tensed to snatch and cock and deliver myself under their very grasp.
Throwing off her robe she abruptly sat up, seeking, her features tensed with the strain.
Jak tensed hand and fingers and tried to depress the button.
Jak tensed his hand and fingers above the controls.
He felt an intolerable strain in her tensed figure.
Through the plate glass partition I could see the men in the operating room tensedover their wheels and levers and dials.
They ran straight forward toward the astounded three, and when a half-score feet from them, leaped with all their force upward and toward them, their tensed bodies flying through the air with feet outstretched before them.
But when he had retrieved the rope and tied it to his waist, he permitted himself a last look up as he passed under the hole in the ceiling--and what he saw there tensed every muscle in his body, and made his heart beat like mad.
He had suppressed his every longing till he became a being that snatched a few hours' sleep, scouted floods with tensed nerves as long as a shred of daylight lasted, and plunked onto a cot for a minimum of rest.
The trouble he was in tensedhis nerves to breaking point.
Below him, men stared upward, faces tensed with anguish as they watched his maneuvers.
He could interpret their thoughts well enough so he was tensed for quick-action, determined not to be caught off guard.
He whirled around and crouched, fists clenched, and his bodytensed to spring forward.
There was a lift of the head, a quivering of the tensed nostrils, but that was all.
Maybe you better go keep her company, Bart," said the father, and at this sign of relenting Vic felt his tensed muscles relaxing; the wolf whined softly and glided through the door.
He tensedhimself and swung the pick a little; but when the priest hurled himself at the Mink, bearing him back against Jerran, the Mink was caught by surprise.
Half-consciously he tensed his whole frame, curled his fingers and toes, thrust out his great chest.
She heard him draw a deep, quivering breath between clenched teeth; but she could not see how his figure tensed and how his face twisted into a glower.
Barney, alert for any move on the part of the suddenly tensed Larry.
Reverting to football tactics, he tensed his lean, hard body and plunged squarely at Shabako.
He could not see Shabako's face, but he saw his tall form pause, and his tensed muscles relax.
The flying reporter was slender but his muscles were like tensed steel.
There was a grim purpose written on thetensed lips.
He stretched and tensed his muscles in order to keep the stiffness from coming into them, and he slept whenever he could.
He stretched and tensedhis limbs in order to restore the full flood of circulation, and announced that he was ready.
He flexed and tensed his muscles again until all the stiffness and soreness were gone.
He drew himself out of the hole, and flexed and tensedhis muscles until his physical vigor returned.
He stood up and tensed and flexed his muscles until he was sure of his physical self.
The function of the triceps is such that it becomes strained upon rare occasions when a horse resists confinement of restraint in such manner that the parts are unduly tensed in contraction.
By outlining the course of this tendon with the fingers, when it is passively tensed sufficiently to follow its course, one may exclude rupture of the superficial flexor.
Tensed for attack, he let go of Lorenzo, who sprang away.
Daoud's heartbeat quickened and he tensedwhen his turn came to pass.
But his stomach tensed with worry about the four people with him.
Daoud tensed himself in case the Sicilian should go for his dagger.
His muscles tensed with a sudden hunger, a long-felt need that Francesca, the woman he bedded with now and then at Tilia Caballo's, could never satisfy.
It tensed against his body, and the whine in its animal throat became an irate hiss.
Gaddon tensed in the darkness, gripping the safety straps he had attached to himself.
But she felt the rigidity going out of his tensed body, and she knew that spirit and flesh were relaxing together.
But there came a time when the buck's ears lifted and tensed with swift eagerness for sound.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tensed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
