Clayton's frustrated confusion reduced his voice to a tense whisper.

"We must be close," Raul said in a tense whisper.

His tense whisper probably wouldn't have been audible a moment before.

His anger rose, even while he kept his voice down to a tense whisper.

"We have to be very quiet," he warned in a tense whisper.

The man put the question in a tense whisper.

"Can't see how many there are," Verhanna said in a tense whisper.

The others were already speaking of her in tense whispers.

X heard the clerk's tense whisper: "Call police headquarters at once."

'Tell me what you make of this,' he said, in a tense, excited whisper.