tense situation in a sentence

Examples

1. "This is a very tense situation out here, " one said.
2. The Russians are being evacuated in connection with the tense situation around Afghanistan.
3. Young children played in the cluttered area, oblivious to the tense situation surrounding them.
4. Modano's status made a tense situation all the more difficult.
5. Because of these steps, an already-tense situation has been aggravated.
6. Flight attendants are trained to try to defuse tense situations.
7. He claims he does his jokes to add levity to an otherwise tense situation.
8. I try . . . to ease such tense situations with irony and discussion.
9. The tense situation was aggravated after a Bahraini pilot defected to Qatar last month.
10. He warned that further delay would cause more anxiety in an already tense situation.