Tenterhooks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENTERHOOKS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• TENTERHOOK, a sharp, hooked nail to fasten cloth to a tenter
• a hook used to fasten cloth on a drying frame or tenter.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• waiting nervously for something to happen; in a state of nervousness or excitement caused by wondering what will happen

Words related to TENTERHOOKS

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How to use TENTERHOOKS in a sentence

• The four Currency Lasses had waited the while on tenter-hooks.
• Julia, outwardly cool, inwardly on tenterhooks, saw so much out of the corner of her eye, and that the two, while they spoke, were looking at her.
• I should be glad to see him torn with tenter-hooks, and to grind his heart-strings with my teeth.
• For two long weeks the family at the Chase lived upon tenterhooks.
• Presently a lady looked over the balustrade, and our Englishman seemed to be on tenter-hooks.
• The duke was on tenterhooks the next day, for though he was braced for the struggle with the duchess, he found the uncertainty when that struggle would begin trying.
• These Chipewyans lost no time in flowery oratory, but came at once to business, and kept us, myself in particular, on tenterhooks for two hours.
• No doubt he thought that I was on tenter-hooks all the time, to look to see if the precious letters had been disturbed.
• Dick, dancing away from third, felt himself on tenterhooks.
• The members of the baseball squad were not by any means the only ones on tenterhooks.
• It is the profound intuition of the truth that keeps me on tenterhooks.

Similar words containing TENTERHOOK without suffix s

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