But there was a tenseness in his face which he could not conceal.
She had somehow to break the tenseness in the room and she called on her reserve of anecdote.
Sitting on the wall, his feet rested easily on the ground while hers swung free, and while he seemed to loll in complete indifference, she was conscious of a tenseness she could not prevent.
A time of abominable tenseness passed, and still that wind blew upon me; and then, suddenly, I knew that something stirred in the corner to the left of the bed.
As I worked, a queer, scarcely perceptible tenseness stole into the air of the place, and the silence seemed, if you can understand me, to grow more solid.
Ellen, unable to remain silent longer, started forward unnoticed by the others in the tenseness of the moment, but before she had taken two steps Loll had taken charge of the situation.
There was a tenseness about his jaw, a smouldering light in his eye that sent a queer chill over the girl.
Her words were low, but in them was an extraordinary vehemence, the tenseness of repressed feeling.
To Moya, looking around upon the little group of armed men, there was a menacing tensenessin their manner.
He saw for a moment with her eyes-- saw that the tenseness of her girlhood had vanished, and he was astonished.
A certain tenseness had gone, a tenseness that had seemed to uphold her frail body and carry her about.
The same strange tensenessthat precedes a tropical storm, an atmosphere of impending conflict, seemed to hang over them.
But the scents alone had not brought the tenseness to his face.
He seemed to have carried into that quiet missionary home with him some of the tenseness of the outside air and some of the tenseness of the political situation.
All turned, and what they saw in nowise relieved the tenseness of the situation.
She sought ease from the tenseness of the moment in sorting the roses.
Doctor muttered, breaking thetenseness of the silence.
Surprised by the tenseness of her tone, he relaxed.
For perhaps two minutes the tenseness of the silence was unbroken, save by the heavy breathing of the Banker as he lay huddled in his chair.
A tenseness had made itself felt throughout the command.
Thrice our muscles were startled into tenseness by the baying of a hound, and once a cock crew out of all season.
A suggestion of tenseness in her pose betraying an inner attitude of alertness, of defiance, conveyed to him sharply and deliciously once more the panther-like impression he had received when first, as a woman, she had come to his notice.
By her quick breathing and the bit of tenseness that had gathered about her mouth he knew that the exertion she had already been put to was having its effect on her.
The moment's tableau was one of rigid amazement on one side, of waiting tenseness on the other.
Amid a tenseness that affected even the actors working with her, Alice took out the papers, inch by inch, and began to move away with them.
Then the scenes were enacted over again, but with moretenseness and with a knowledge that every motion was being filmed with startling exactness.
The distant roll of thunder added to the tenseness of the atmosphere.
There was a curious tenseness in her attitude that made me follow her gaze, and what I saw left me with no wonder at it--a huge, black, indistinct form that moved slowly toward us through the darkness.
They broke thetenseness of that moment like the noise of a shot.
No demonstration accompanied her passing, but a great sigh sounded over the room as the tenseness of the listening strain relaxed, and the fulness of satisfaction came in its place.
But the gravity with which she'd uttered the invitation and the tenseness of his acceptance of it, the square look that passed between them, marked an end of something and the beginning of something new.
But to-night the tenseness of her movements and the faint trace of a wire edge in the tone in which she addressed the maid, revealed the fact that she wished she'd started half an hour earlier.
Her voice softened a little as she concluded and the tenseness of her attitude, there at the window, relaxed.
The tenseness of her attitude relaxed suddenly when the child was gone.
The tenseness of the situation was momentarily relieved by the appearance of Mrs. Pope and Alice.
The soreness in my foot died out and the fact that I was a prisoner on my way to my doom faded from my mind like a passing cloud, for in one word the tenseness of the situation stirred every fibre and I was excited.
Both men jumped and in my tenseness I jumped with them.
The tenseness had vanished, as mysteriously as it had come.
His face hardened, a tenseness that spread upward through his high cheeks and into his eyes.
He pecked at her nose, and she sensed a tensenessin his mouth.
Her mouth lost its tenseness and softened to a half smile.
Within herself she was so intense, so excited that she wanted to rub her cheeks against the bark of the tree until the blood came, until physical pain came to counteract the tenseness within that had become pain.
The tenseness within her relaxed and she tried again to think.
In her presence the man was relieved, he relaxed out of the tenseness that had become the habit of this body.
A strange sort of tenseness came into the air of the room and all three people suddenly got up from the table.
The tenseness was gone from the bronze muscles of his face.
Something came to relieve the tenseness of the moment for Jolly Roger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenseness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: electricity; heat; pressure; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; strain; stress; tension; tightness
