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How to use tensing in a sentence

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His powerful muscles bunched, tensing up and readying themselves to deliver a payload of suffering and torture.
My whole body was tensing and relaxing as my logical mind and instincts fought against each other.
She accepted his hand, tensing a bit when his thumb made one light stroke of her knuckles.
He rose up on one knee, then crouched there, body tight, as if tensing for the pounce.
She wrung her hands nervously behind her back, shoulders tensing and untensing.
Just a slight tensing of the muscles, an infinitesimal straightening of the back, a tiny lift of the head, betrayed his sudden interest.
I couldn't keep myself from tensing at seeing her beautiful face, the face in my dreams and that I fantasized about holding and kissing.
Azrael had jammed on the brakes, sending the automobile into a short skid forward, the sudden movement tensing his new muscles and flesh quickly.
The first deals with cranial tensing which will secure the cranium during the first part of the child's passage in the birth channel.
How must they put make-up on, what product should they use, which one will erase their imperfections and have a real tensing effect?
I move, all of my muscles tensing, then exploding into action.
You'll probably feel your stomach area tensing up as you lift your legs: that feeling is your core muscles contracting.
Firmness is achieved from day to day, by providing the skin with moisturizing, antioxidant, nourishing and tensing agents on a day-to-day basis.
The drip, drip dripping sound of water echoed eerily, tensing her nerves.
The chair redirection station was equipped with an active hydraulic tensing system to guarantee a constant tension of the conveyor belt.
Pursing our lips, scrunching our foreheads, tensing our shoulders to hold a position?
Start by tensing your abdominal muscles in order to press your lumbar vertebrae against the floor.
The hands that once gripped her arms loosed, the woman herself tensing with boiling rage as she jerked away from their now light and effortless hands.
I could see the muscles of his arms tensing every now and then.
When we are stressed our body responds by tensing the muscles.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He sat on the edge of the cot, tensing as though for a leap at Conn's throat.
There was a tensing of the abdomen, a faint burning in the pit of his stomach.
The tensing of her body betrayed the temper in which Lucinda met his suggestion.
He felt the tensing of the others in the room, not toward the major but toward him.
There came a tensing of the relaxed form, and the head lifted a little so that the girl could look at her questioner.
Barring a little stiffness, which he removed by flexing and tensing his muscles, he felt very strong and capable.
Ennis, tensing to spring toward Ruth, saw the two priests at the gray mechanism swiftly turn the knurled black knobs.
I felt that familiar tightening behind my eyes, that familiar tensing and hunching of my shoulders.
Wells' fists kept tensing and relaxing as he peered for a sight of the enemy in the teleview.
Lucinda divined hostility in the tensing of the arm round her waist.
Albert turned to face the nearest native, tensing his muscles for battle.
This was as exasperating as the real thing, for each time Daylight was fooled into tightening his leg grip and into a general muscular tensing of all his body.
Higher he raised his spear, tensing his muscles, rolling beneath his glistening, ebon hide, and then from the jungle just beyond the palisade came a thunderous crashing.
Next move to the shoulders tensing them forwards and then relaxing backwards and then relaxing and bringing them up to your ears and then relaxing.
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