It prevented me from so much as putting tension on the chain.

I must drive my lance through the fish, putting the rig in compression rather than tension.

From here it looks like he just put too much tension on it.

And when you put tension on anything, it becomes stronger.

And in a lifetime of trying, she would not be able to put enough tension on the chain to snap it.

She was wearing heels and they put tension in the muscles of her legs.

When a dozen more were in place, they'd put tension on the cables to prevent the minutest shift.

Her nervous, evasive manner put tension between us, when nothing else was happening to create it.

"You put tension on yourself and you're only going to make more mistakes and not play as well," he added.

Following his directions, the pilot put tension on the cable, then began carefully to reel it in.