But none of us laughed; there was an electric tension in the air.

Yet there was an electric tension in the air that made it hard to breathe.

For an instant there was silence, a growing electric tension in the air.

Electric tension in the air could almost be felt.

The sense of the Coming's imminence was like an electric tension in the air.

There was a silent, electric tension, like a blanket going over the whole crowd.

As he moved southward Else began to sense a potent electric tension.

The attitude of these five generals fairly filled the room with electric tension.

The electric tension in the air between them mounted.

As she repeatedly demands her revenge, the air will be filled with electric tension.

Electric tension flowed into the room on the heels of the silence that followed.

It could happen at any time, more so during the period of storm when nerves jerked to electric tension.

An electric tension leaped from one individual to another.

There was a taut, electric tension in the air.

The electric tension flowed out of me and I went limp, swaying on my feet.

Hayley could feel an electric tension all round them.

His body was charged with an electric tension.

Then all at once the strangeness was gone from the room, and there was only the electric tension again.

It all happens so quickly that there is no time to explain the feeling of electric tension such zigzagging currents create.

It was the storm in the air, the electric tension, he knew, which was frightening the hawk.

That and the electric tension that was almost tangible.

He felt electric tension crackling in the air.

Two images demonstrate the stark class contrasts that gave Brandt's early work an electric tension.

The first indication was a feeling, a very physical feeling, the kind of electric tension she had felt before massive thunderstorms.

Electric tension vibrated around them, enclosing them in a private world of their own.