As if that had somehow released unspoken tension, talk drifted into lighter topics.

It had been an unspoken tension between him and his mother.

If only it had been that simple dealing with the hanging, unspoken tension between me and Gaia.

There'd always been a certain unspoken tension between them-an awareness of differences.

Words that broke the unspoken tension that had been between them.

Still, there is often an unspoken and unacknowledged tension between the two groups of adults.

An unspoken tension existed between them that both sensed but were unwilling to admit.

There was an unspoken tension: Would new violence and terror intrude upon the game?

The two part ways some time later but it is obvious that there is something going on between them, unspoken tension.

The suggestion seemed to have relieved the unspoken tension.