What is "tensed"

Usage examples of "tensed".

The largest of the Gringg tensed, watching carefully "Be careful, Landreau,” Greene cautioned the younger man, who lay gasping and breathless with laughter on the deck.

Her hands, which had tensed into flat defensive positions, went to her lips in a gesture reminiscent of her childhood.

She'd been ready to act then, fingers tensed against the side of her left-leg prosthesis, adrenalin keeping her unnaturally aware of every shadow and change of intonation.

He felt an enormous upwelling anger, and wondered at it even as the muscles of his neck and shoulders tensed in rage.

Every one of our magifolk is tensed up so much I don't know how they can swallow.

A griffin, spotting her helplessness, tensed its muscular haunches and prepared to spring.

Under Sascha's hands, Tirla's narrow shoulders tensed, and surreptitiously she shielded her brand-new ID bracelet by moving her arm slightly be hind her.

He didn't move but his body tensed a moment before he obviously forced himself to relax.

As her nervous system tingled with the after effect, she did groan and massaged the back of her neck to ease muscles that had tensed in that split second of measurable agony.

She tensed at the sound of his voice an expression of compassion and worry momentarily clouding her face.

Then she tensed, remembering that the bronzes had been waiting to see what the queen would do.

Her entire body tensed as she listened to him getting out of the chair, struggling for balance, but she didn't dare look around.

But then he had seen the way she tensed when Daffy had put his arm around her waist, and the answer had flashed into his mind.

She laid her palms against his shoulders, and he tensed, waiting for her to push him away, knowing it was for the best but dreading the loss of contact.

She tensed, and her hands flattened against his chest as if she would try to shove him off.