he could feel the tenseness of her body.
he could sense her latent hostility to him.
he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension.
it places great tension on the leg muscles.
stress is a vasoconstrictor.
tension holds the belt in the pulleys.
the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions.
the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear.
there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history.
there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time.