What is "tensely"

Usage examples of "tensely".

Vanessa waited tensely in the barouche, trying to stop the harness jingling too much.

Taking Proxenus to one side, he whispered to him for a moment, gesturing to him tensely with his hands in tight little thrusts and chops as Proxenus nodded grimly.

Trooper Jarle moved on down the line until he reached where Yashec was crouched with a firm grip on his pulser, his nightscope down, peering tensely into the darkness.

Some ineffectual snorting sounds came from their master, a middle-aged man with a basin-cut hairdo and a face like a cliffside, who apparently thought he was controlling his charges when finally one lay and the other sat tensely, both with snarls locked in their throats, the bullterrier with teeth bared at a calico cat a youngish couple had wedged between them.

Ignoring the groans and snaps of tortured metal and plastic, Carmen ran the thruster limit all the way up and waited tensely for the automatic leveler to raise the tail off the ground.

At last, realizing that Deadeye was tensely waiting for him to say something, Josh looked up.

Along with the rest of the physicists, Jens Larssen watched tensely as Enrico Fermi manipulated the levers that raised the cadmium control rods from the heart of the rebuilt atomic pile under the University of Denver football stadium.

I imagined Sean Metcalfe crouching in the dark under a window or at the back door, screwdriver in hand, listening as tensely as I was, listening for signs that I had heard him.

Her coffin screen showed little detail, though it was set in a wave band which gave several hundred meters of fog penetration, and she tensely watched the center of the Mollweide ellipse.

Victoria sat tensely as Lucas reverently removed the paper wrapping and stared thoughtfully down at Strelitzia reginae.

There were more nightguards present than usual, all in full Tuigan-style armor and tensely alert.

Borga and Morgan stepped forward, while the other traders watched tensely.

Striding out from among the tensely waiting warriors toward Baerimgrim came a young, black-bearded man in the green and silver of Hothal -- one of the few who'd not come to court this day full-armored for battle.

Fathers shouted their children's names while they waved favorite toys tied to long poles, hoping to entice the wandering souls, and mothers stood tensely at the bedsides with cords that would tie the souls to the bodies should they return.

Tensely the two boys waited to hear police whistles and Chief Collig barking orders.