The Emperor laughed so naturally that it seemed as though a great tension had snapped in the room.

The tension snapped, replaced by the feeling that someone had removed the weight of a horse from his back.

His mouth found the peak of her breast, and when he tugged on it, the tension snapped.

Ogden looked at him finally, and the tension snapped like a twig.

If the tension snapped, Karli would be dead within five heartbeats.

The tension in him snapped suddenly; and he burst out laughing.

Roger felt the tension running through him snap like a cut wire.

The tension that had been building in Katie snapped, like a rope stretched beyond its strength.

The tension inside Will snapped like a breaking spring, and he began to laugh.

The terror in her eyes startled him and the tension snapped.