I am constant alone--noticeably tensely constant--in my Wavering: and less constant in Wavering than in the ghoulish preference.
And were I not so tensely tiredly sane I would say that I am mad.
The words had come out in the heat of impulse, shot at Kirby tenselyand breathlessly.
It struck Kirby that he was waiting tensely for the decision of James, though the reason for his anxiety was not apparent.
Slowly, surely, the little stallion leaned his weight against the tensely drawn riata and Carolyn June felt herself lifted, inch by inch, out of the sand that engulfed her.
The girl on the landing above waited tensely for Jeff's answer.
Tensely she watched him; but he did not so much as glance her way.
Henley and Dixie repeated the words in the same breath as they tenselyleaned forward.
His face was close to hers, glowing and vital and tensely determined.
He made no violent movement, but his whole body was tenselystrung to resist.
He stopped instantly, but he did not turn, merely stood tensely waiting.
He had not moved at her touch, yet she felt his fingers close tensely as they lay upon her knee, and she guessed that he was still striving to control the inner tumult that had so nearly overwhelmed him a few minutes before.
In the captain's sanctum Lyman Cleveland crouched tensely above his ultra-cameras, his sensitive fingers touching lightly their micrometric dials.
Had you been less tensely wrapped up in Comrade Prebble's conversation, I would have desired you to step across and join us.
Thinking it over more tensely than he had ever thought over anything in his whole life, he saw clearly that everything depended on what sort of show he made in this match which was now in progress.
The deputy commander was at his post, waiting tensely for orders.
He watched tensely and saw the charge explode on the hull of the Connie cruiser.
With hands stretched tensely against the corners of the trunk, he warded off as best he could the shocks of the skilled baggage-breakers along the route.
Warren rose to his feet, and with hands clasped tensely behind him walked to the window.
He read it standing tenselyby the doorway, as dozens of men walked in and out, little dreaming of the tragedy attached to that casual fragment of white note-paper.
Tensely the three who stood shoulder to shoulder in the darkness of the foremost trench, waiting, listened for the answer.
Tensely and quietly they waited in the trench for the hands of time to move to the hour of four.
His brows drew together in a dark frown; his face grew livid and tensely lined.
He groaned, catching his lips tensely between his teeth.
Jack waited, hardly daring to breathe, every nerve tensely braced to meet the shock of the discharge.
Mr. Knight waited tensely for the report of the pistol, but it did not come, and presently the captain lowered the hammer and slipped it back again in his pocket.
With Garrigan he joined the tensely waiting group beside the door.
Foster crouched on the girder, his eyes fixed upon the scene below as he tensely waited for the best moment to make the leap.
Wade," called Arcot tensely as he snapped the switch of the televisophone, "bring Morey and meet me at the machine on the roof at once.
Steadily they flew on, waiting tensely for the first sign of a glow from the tiny neon tube indicator on the panel before Morey.
It seemed as though he could picture the two men--Lannigan leaning suddenly forward--Lannigan and Whitey Mack staring tensely into each other's eyes.
And there had been--he leaned quickly, tensely forward over the table, staring at her.
Aunt Claudia stoodtensely in the middle of the room.
She clasped her hands tensely on her knees; the knuckles showed white.
You let your audience guess what is going to happen, but keep them tensely interested in how it is going to happen.
One of the most important elements of playlet writing is to let your audience guess what is going to happen--but keep them tensely interested in how it is going to happen.
It is a tensely moving study of the human heart and its aspirations that unfolds itself through thrilling situations and dramatic developments.
Her face was tensely earnest while she waited for the big man before her to answer.
To Mr. Heatherbloom that slender figure, tensely poised, seemed at once overwhelmingly near and inexpressibly remote.
Tell me," she said, still tensely poised, her eyes insistent in the shadow of her hair.
She waited tensely for the next sound, but it was long in coming.
She waited tensely until Mac had sped the car across the gleaming tracks, just escaping the descending gates.
Suddenly was heard the cry for which she had been tensely but unconsciously awaiting.
Then with a little tremor she wondered whether they must lose him, and, rising, stoodtensely still, listening for any sound from the room where the sick man lay.
The bystanders waited motionless, and none of them made a bet, for any stakes they could offer would be trifles now; but they glanced at the lad who stood tensely still, while Witham watched the face of the man at the table in front of him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tensely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
