The policeman fires again, tensed against the recoil, unleashing round after round at his assailant .
These structures suggest a mechanism, supported by mutational and other data, in which electrostatic forces drive the DNA packaging by alternating between tensed and relaxed states.
He tensed his muscles for the leap.
The child's body tensed as the woman came up to him.
I then traced my fingers over the bruises on his arm and then his chest, he tensed and he took my hand.
When I tensed up, she realized I didn't recognize her.
Stress is a mental condition of a person who is tensed due to some reason or due to some pressure.
It must have been the wrong thing to say, as Snape tensed slightly in his arms.
He tensed his muscles for the effort.
In the passenger seat, Jack Bauer tensed. The brown cloud was large enough to give away their presence to the terrorists, but nothing could be done about that now.
John Parker tensed when he heard the soft knock.
Fear: eyebrows raised and pulled together; raised upper eyelids; tensed lower eyelids; lips tightly stretched horizontally back to the ears.
He was the alpha trader. When he laughed, the mood lightened; when he yelled, everyone tensed up.