It is for this that they have been waiting so tensely.

Father and son waited tensely for nearly half an hour.

Sandy and her parents waited tensely in the living room.

He waited tensely, but neither saw nor heard anything else.

I sat on my hands, tensely waiting for him to begin another activity.

She waited tensely; then decided to go out into the hall again.

I could feel he was still tensely waiting for something.

As he sat tensely waiting, a woman stepped forward from the shadows behind him.

Everyone waited tensely to hear what she had to say, most of them prepared not to like it.

He waited tensely to see which of them had been right.