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How to use tensed in a sentence

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The coldness intensified, her face flushed with despair as every muscle tensed.
With all muscles tensed, his forearms pressed over his stomach under the blinding shock of the bullet tearing through his insides.
Muscles tensed and eyes peeled, they push off for another dash and cross the finish line.
When you are literally frozen in fear, your whole body is tensed and tight, and any movement feels scary and uncoordinated.
A great importance is attached to relaxation techniques that might help a person tensed due to chronic stressful life style.
He tensed up for a single second, and then relaxed, all his worries and pain leaving him.
His muscles flexed and tensed and for a moment, Lena thought that this is what the gods had made him for.
Ryan's whole body tensed up and his jokey, light-hearted aura dissipated in a second.
The man flicked his gaze from the road ahead to the rear-view mirror and instantly tensed.
Katy's brow wrinkled and she tensed, preparing herself for the instructions coming.
Sinclaire tensed, and inhaled sharply, the fear registering in his ice coloured eyes for the first time.
The fledgling landed, then began a careful advance toward the strange group, wings half open and muscles tensed for flight.
And my shoulders are all tensed up, sore, but I'm still listening, because her voice is getting real rhythmic and hypnotizing.
The girl's eyelids flinched, as though she was dreaming, and she tensed up momentarily before relaxing and falling into a true sleep.
Unprepared, I tensed, then relaxed against him, reminding myself that this was acceptable now.
He picked up and his relaxed mood soon tensed, urgency in his voice as he nodded.
The Captain continuing to massage her tensed muscles and relaxation once again gave relief to the few lingering spasms.
Michael eased off his glove and set his teeth and tensed, and after a moment the tips of his fingers moved.
He was still tensed, ready to move, his chest rising and falling with each breath.
My shoulders tensed instantaneously, terrified tremors running through me, goose bumps rising on my exposed flesh.
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He tensed now, not daring to relax for fear that the blastoff accelleration would slam him when he was unprepared.
She stood a little drooping and shaken, where for a moment she had been erect and tensed.
Suddenly to Dave's tensed senses there came a sound akin to that of somebody putting sheets of tin to a buzz saw blade.
He tensed, straining his ears for any movement that might locate the hidden foe.
As he sat there, his muscles tensed with the picturization of what was soon to be.
Mrs. Ericson adjusted her Polaroid glasses and waved her rickshaw boy into his harness, where his thighs tensed for the long haul.
And then, as though the hand of Death had reached out and touched them all, the five men tensed into sudden rigidity.
But there came a time when the buck's ears lifted and tensed with swift eagerness for sound.
Meanwhile, situation became more tensed after four people including FC personnel shot dead last night.
His muscles tensed suddenly for a quick spring, then relaxed.
Delcamp asked, more than half jealously, and Belle tensed her muscles.
He tensed his muscles to leap at Garlock, to find that he could not move.
Unconsciously, he tensed the muscles of his six feet of lean, hard body.
Facing him across the platform were two lions, tensed as if to leap.
For a second, she tensed, while he waited, grinning down at her.
The tensed body relaxed, and the black, stooping over the corpse, helped carry it out.
The Virgin, who had tensed unconsciously till her muscles hurt her, relaxed.
Why was it then that his brows contracted and his muscles tensed as he saw Taug pause beside the young she and then squat down close to her?
Lizzie knew it for what it was, and her body tensed angrily.
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