How to Use high-tension in a Sentence

high-tension

adjective
  • After a string of high-tension, high-stakes episodes — will the deck team implode?
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025
  • With scalp serums, a consistent routine, and a break from trendy high-tension styles, my scalp is healing.
    — Donnetta Monk, Essence, 21 Nov. 2025
  • While an occasional high-tension style isn't going to ruin your hair, these are the most common complaints from people who slick their strands back regularly.
    — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 18 Nov. 2025
  • No Slickback November is currently trending on TikTok, which means thousands of users are ditching high-tension hairstyles for the month.
    — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Lewis reportedly was referring to the high-tension situation unfolding in the community following the beatdown.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The latter film explores the dramatic effort to save a group of schoolkids stranded in a cable car in a remote area of Northern Pakistan after a high-tension wire snapped, leaving them dangling almost a thousand feet above a valley.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
  • These high-tension cables virtually eliminate vertical movement, providing exceptional stability even in deep and turbulent ocean waters.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • Special shout-out to the writers’ room for giving us a high-tension cold open and then segueing immediately post-credits to the Titan equivalent of a family road trip where Mom and Dad are pedantic geniuses arguing over what route to take to the beach.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 22 May 2026
  • So good at important moments in the high-stakes, high-tension final set, Sabalenka held it together and held on, converting her third match point Thursday night to finish off a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Pegula in a rematch of last year’s final.
    — Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025

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