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:

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.
On television, we see close-up interviews with designers babbling tensely just before the show and gasping with relief and fatigue afterward.
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.