1.   He swung her up in his arms, tense for a moment before she burrowed her face into his neck like a tired child.

2.   But the scene will be politically tense for all concerned.

3.   In the meantime, things are expected to be tense for top management.

4.   Relations between the mayor and the commissioner had been openly tense for a year.

5.   The atmosphere at the hospital had been tense for weeks.

6.   The subject has become more tense for Shawn and his mother, Jean Daniels, in the last six years.

7.   Things were so tense for retailers that some stores were holding after-Christmas sales before the holiday.

8.   A staffer said the atmosphere in the Hong Kong office has been quite tense for the past few days, with employees unsure of what was going to happen.

9.   But it was tense for a while.

10.   Christian-Muslim relations have been tense for years in Sudan, a vast Afro-Arab nation where Muslims are in the majority.