Words similar to tensely

Example sentences for: tensely

How can you use “tensely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

On television, we see close-up interviews with designers babbling tensely just before the show and gasping with relief and fatigue afterward.
The department has stocked up on pepper spray and smoke bombs and has given additional riot training to 45 officers, alarming many Hartford residents, tensely awaiting a prosecutor's decision about whether to charge a white officer who fatally shot a black 14-year-old in the back.
A small, white-bearded Melanesian man strolls nonchalantly past a platoon of tensely trudging grunts who can't believe they're encountering this instead of a hail of Japanese bullets.