How to Use tenterhook in a Sentence

tenterhook

noun
  • Since Season 1 of Riverdale ended, fans have been on tenterhooks.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Sep. 2017
  • President Trump should announce who the new Fed Chair will be after keeping us on tenterhooks for the last few months.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • For them, the concert hall is a place of tenterhooks and dueling impulses.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The country has been on tenterhooks in recent weeks, with many voters eager to learn if any evidence of hacking had been found.
    — CNN, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The side's impressive counter-attacking football is bound to offer some hope to the fans, who remain on tenterhooks as their team now sit just one point away from the bottom three.
    — SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Back then, critics were hardly on tenterhooks waiting for the man's latest tunes, either.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • While that's left traders on tenterhooks, some are arguing conditions are ripe for a market rebound.
    — Andreea Papuc, Bloomberg.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The world was on tenterhooks until the following morning, waiting to see if, and how, the president would tweet in response to the entire situation.
    — Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
  • China’s tech businesses have been on tenterhooks in recent months.
    — Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Hondurans have been on tenterhooks since last year, when T.P.S. designation for their country was up for renewal.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • Still on tenterhooks after the gripping final scene of Outlander's season premiere?
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2018
  • With global powers on tenterhooks, the risk of a miscalculation -- and a knee-jerk deployment of a nuclear weapon -- would increase.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 20 July 2019
  • Now, Klopp has established a style of football which severely limits the oppositions chances on goal, but the feeling of being on tenterhooks remains deeply ingrained at the club.
    — SI.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The taut lyricism of Lee’s work, a lyricism on tenterhooks, counteracts but cannot entirely transform a world still echoing with his father’s reprimands.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • Instead of leaving an audience on tenterhooks, we’re left only to shrug.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • There's a tentative deal on the debt ceiling, but the markets are still on tenterhooks.
    — WSJ, 30 May 2023
  • But Europe is set to remain on tenterhooks through the winter, with surging prices ravaging its economies.
    — Elena Mazneva, Bloomberg.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • This news ought to have the top three players on tenterhooks.
    — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 July 2019

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