She saw the almost imperceptible tensing of a neck-muscle which would have turned Herkimer's head in a certain direction if it had been allowed to act.
Higher he raised his spear, tensing his muscles, rolling beneath his glistening, ebon hide, and then from the jungle just beyond the palisade came a thunderous crashing.
There was a startled tensing of muscles and cocking of ears, a sudden dash, and Tarzan's meat was gone.
The beach-comber was aware of a lightning-quick tensing of the slumped muscles.
And I could see your muscles tensing for a spring, right at him, before the light went out.
The only result was to enable Gavin to tighten his hold, unopposed by the tensing of the enemy's wall of muscles.
If this tensing is not allowed the anger will not last long.
A perfectly relaxed individual can not harbor anger, for this emotion requires tensingof body and mind.
During anger there is a tensing of various muscles, those of the face and hands for instance.
It gathered for the final spring, its terrible legs tensing perceptibly--a creature out of a nightmare.
At once he sensed its tensing body, its bunching muscles--then knew that it had sprung.
Kent, holding his breath, saw the almost imperceptible tensing of Marette's body and the wavering of Pelly's arms over his head.
It rippled over and through him like an electrical voltaism, making his body rigid, stiffening what had seemed to be fat into muscle, tensing his hands until they knotted themselves slowly into fists.
He had worked himself to such a pitch of rage that it gripped him like some strong fever--bloating his face, tensing his muscles, bulging his eyes.
Lucinda divined hostility in thetensing of the arm round her waist.
The tensing of her body betrayed the temper in which Lucinda met his suggestion.
He became suddenly aware that his fingers were tensing and crooking like a thug's, and he knew the desire to kill.
A slow tensing of biceps, a drawing up of the pendulous body, the quick flash of a heel thrown over the limb, and she lay upon it, laughing softly.
The effect produced is essentially the same as in the tensing system.
You can accomplish this result by tensing the will and by strengthening the active function of your mind and thus enabling it to "step in" and simply 'command' the passive function to drop the old thought-habit and take up the new one.
Then Linda felt the tensing of every muscle in Katy's body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tensing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
