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Example sentences for: tension

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The family's fake equilibrium creates a tension that's nearly unbearable, and when the front door swung open and that boy stood there it was all I could do to keep from jumping out of my seat.
The statute's application of the presence requirement to legal permanent residents, for example, is in some tension with the fact that those aliens are legally entitled to leave the United States temporarily without affecting their immigration status.
Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) win praise for ratcheting up the sexual tension, a central part of the TV show's appeal.
American opposition to Mobutu has been a source of tension with France, which supports the Hutus and resents Kabila's alliance with the Banyamulenge.
The dielectric constant and surface tension utilized were optimized against a benchmark of eight protein-protein, 13 protein-small ligand, and eight protein-peptide complexes, and result in a 2.5 kcal/mol accuracy [ 20 ] .