Tensions reach a boiling point during the first game of the season.

The tension finally reached the point that he had to urinate.

Suddenly, the high tension of this strange relationship reaches its breaking point.

The tensions reached a peak late last month after a white police officer was killed on a downtown street by a homeless black man.

Tension among the groups reached its peak in the 1990s with a large number of people injured during open clashes.

The tension reached a climax in these superb performances because nothing, not something, happened.

The tensions reached a peak last August when an arson fire destroyed the high school.

Then Jessamy made a desperate attempt to put an end to this before the tension between them reached an even more dangerous level.

The humiliated fanatics lost tremendous face, and so tensions have reached an even higher level than before.

But the tension reached a new level about a year ago when the judges began demanding that they have the sole right to monitor elections.