What is "tensions"

Usage examples of "tensions".

Grannta, or the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, because it was certain to catalyze tensions which had been building for years, certain to precipitate a war.

In fact, despite the building tensions, hardly anybody had even admitted to Joe they knew the beanfield existed.

There was an ease of communication, with much joking, and none of the elaborate courtesies that usually indicated underlying tensions when two different peoples met.

Done well, the result was a waterproof shell which could resist the tensions and stresses of hard use for several years.

He was so full, so ready, and she was crying out as her tensions rose.

Only his younger brother seemed able to handle his love, to accept with ease and deflect with laughter the tensions it caused.

But it was as much a release of tensions that had been accumulating, as the mirthfulness of the situation.

Yet, with all the easing of tensions practicing brought about, a distance remained between them that they could not seem to close.

Ayla noticed the easing of tensions, too, but she was worried about where the horses would spend the night when she was inside the earthlodge.

Seeing Ranec gave him an idea of a way to ease tensions and get back to storytelling.

He was releasing his own tensions as well as trying to convince her not to take such chances again.

And yet he had the uneasy conviction that before: dawn the tensions would have reasserted in his mind.

After a week, though, he was having to cope with some unnecessary tensions of his own.