on tenterhooks in a sentence

Examples

1. The financial markets were on tenterhooks ahead of Friday's key February payrolls data to shed more light on the economy's vigor.
2. It is from this process that the phrase " being on tenterhooks " is derived, as meaning to be held in suspense.
3. We want to get the organizational issues sorted out so that people are not on tenterhooks wondering where they're going to be ."
4. Xinhua, whose articles reflect the opinion of the government, claimed that the improvement in relations placed " Taiwan authorities on tenterhooks ."
5. Philippe Goddin stated that the strips for this story " kept the reader daily on tenterhooks in a story replete with new twists and humour ".
6. Her father has had the tennis world on tenterhooks since Venus was 10 and he began embroidering the fable of his talented daughter as a ghetto Cinderella.
7. Kept on tenterhooks as to just how he was supposed to behave, Donald stays every inch the cheerful, buttoned-down, fully clothed paragon.
8. All week the quirky Nebraskan Democrat has been taking in matinees and communing with his guru, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, while the White House hangs on tenterhooks.
9. But Seles, who kept event officials on tenterhooks until Sunday about her availability, chose to compete even if her ailment forces her to serve moon balls.
10. Unambiguous strength in the payroll report would likely spur a tightening, but a tame report would leave the policy outlook wide open and the market on tenterhooks.