Why do you keep me ontenterhooks like this, putting me off and off?
Having ordered a light repast, to the consternation of the waiter, they awaited its arrival together with that of Mr. Bellby, in silent reaction after the hour and a half's suspense on the tenterhooks of publicity.
He was on tenterhooksof agitation, knowing Madame was ill.
He went straight down to Lumley, and Madame had to remain on tenterhooks till ten o'clock.
And then ensued a period of rather trying inactivity, during which Jack and Carlos were kept constantly on the tenterhooks of expectancy, vainly striving to get some inkling of the intentions of the enemy.
Aunt Susan will be on tenterhooks till she sees this youngster.
Their effect is to terrify every one and keep them on tenterhooks watching for them.
I have seen an Englishman unintentionally insult a host at his own table, and set everybody on tenterhooks by his blundering assumption that the colonists are necessarily inferior to home-bred people.
Lola laughed and told her, and then followed her introduction to the little group of hairy children who were all waiting on tenterhooks for a chance to act.
An impish desire to keep these two on tenterhooks and get a little fun out of all this--it was the only thing that she could get--suddenly seized Feo strongly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenterhooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
