But that sort of tension can take things only so far.

June 1963 was a time of high tension in the cold war.

We're used to living with a certain amount of tension.

A kind of tension came into the room very suddenly.

There was a moment of high tension, when anything seemed possible.

Your mind is in a state of tension the whole time that you are reading him.

There was a lot of tension in the house, though.

There is a history of tension between church and state in the country.

The small body lost some of its tension, as if those words were all it took.

"I come down here to work out some of the tension."