The government has vowed not to surrender, and now waits in tense anticipation of a final attack.

A sense of tense anticipation hung in the air.

The time neared, everyone in his age group felt the same tense anticipation.

Then Perry leaned forward in tense anticipation as 1939 passed by.

Richard noticed, then, that everyone was standing in tense anticipation, as if they had expected this to be trouble.

His mouth was dry and his muscles quivered with tense anticipation.

So for once there was an air of tense anticipation among them as they sat down and Steve poured a robust red into their glasses.

There, she saw the sight that made her tremble - not so much with fear, as with tense anticipation.

Long periods of tense anticipation followed by short bursts of activity.

We have every right to await with tense anticipation what will emerge from the third reading.