Tensely is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENSELY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• TENSE, taut
• in a tense manner
• in a manner involving high mental or nervous strain.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a distinction of form in a verb to express distinctions of time or duration of the action or state it denotes

Words related to TENSELY

tense5

Words that contain TENSELY

intensely12 overintensely19

How to use TENSELY in a sentence

• He made no violent movement, but his whole body was tensely strung to resist.
• She felt his fingers close tensely, but in a moment they opened again and set her free.
• He sat down, sinking as it were into a great abyss of silence, listening tensely, but hearing not so much as a breath.
• It seemed to come from somewhere above the girl and in the glare of the sudden light I saw that she was staring tensely upward, but at no visible thing.
• The moment was tensely electric when at last we heard the clatter of his boots on the stairway.
• Only then did her parted lips close tensely in the woman fear of what she read in my eyes.
• Heatherbloom that slender figure, tensely poised, seemed at once overwhelmingly near and inexpressibly remote.
• Penniman seemed to be tightly wound up with expectancy about him, yet lived their own lives not too tensely.
• Julius himself had sat absolutely still beside the chauffeur, his muscles tensely bracing themselves for whatever might come.
• But her breath was sobbing, and in the lifting of the purplish gloom she turned her face for an instant to Alan, tensely white, with wide-open eyes.
• Donald had moved, and Joanne was watching him tensely, when he took the glass from his eyes.
• Several times White had seen him excited, and when he was excited Benham was capable of tensely daring things.
• She had never before so tensely faced an audience, but there was more at stake than she cared to confess, and she was not equal to it.
• The small groups on the pier waited tensely for the last words with those departing.
• The relaxation of my nerves and muscles after having been so tensely strained left me that afternoon so weak that I could hardly walk or perform any mental exertion.
• Her fists clenched, and she peered tensely toward the wall of the scrub timber that showed silent and black and impenetrable in the little light of the stars.
• What can be acquired, with blood and tears, is the courage of the will, stubborn and unyielding, but always nerve-racked, proudly and tensely strung up.
• My thoughts ran like a turgid stream as I stood tensely watching.
• Her nerves were tensely strung, and giggling was her sole expression for a wide range of emotion.
• She waited tensely for a repetition of the sound, not quite sure from where it had come.
• His nerves were tensely strained, he did his work with his eyes fixed upon some impossible distance, he often did not hear us when we spoke to him.
• She received an impression of a strong face, with stern-looking, bright, steel-blue eyes, a mouth tensely set, an aspect at once confident yet self-contained.
• They worked as quietly as possible, but to our ears, tensely strained, the noise of labour came like the rumble of artillery.
• It is a tensely moving study of the human heart and its aspirations that unfolds itself through thrilling situations and dramatic developments.
• Tensely the three who stood shoulder to shoulder in the darkness of the foremost trench, waiting, listened for the answer.
• Tensely and quietly they waited in the trench for the hands of time to move to the hour of four.
• Again Muriel listened for the failing breath, listened closely, tensely, her face bent low to the fair head that lay so still upon her breast.
• Tensely she watched, in a suspense that racked her whole body.
• Olga waited a moment or two, listening tensely, then rose and laid her very tenderly back upon the pillow.
• It is only a minute or two after the first evidence of activity before the whole fleet is tensely active.
• Forty-five pairs of hands unmittened, and forty-five pairs of moccasins pressed tensely into the packed snow.
• Suddenly she gripped his wrist tensely and he looked up in surprise.

Similar words containing TENSE without suffix ly

tense5 tensed7 tenser6 tenses6 extense14 intense7 tensest7 extenses15 intenser8 pretense10 protense10 subtense10 intensely12 intensest9 pretenses11 protenses11 subtenses11 tenseless9 tenseness9 hypertense18 intenseness11 overintense14 tensenesses11 hyperintense20 superintense14 pretenseless14 intensenesses13 overintensely19

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