Examples of 'tenterhooks' in a sentence
Meaning of "tenterhooks"
Tenterhooks: hooks used for tentering cloth on a drying frame. It is used as a verb to describe the act of putting, holding, or suspending something in a state of tension or suspense
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Keeping me on tenterhooks till the last moment.
And there is something that has me on tenterhooks.
We have been on tenterhooks since the injunction.
Two people are staying on tenterhooks.
I was waiting on tenterhooks for this scene.
The entire fashion world is on tenterhooks.
Keep them on tenterhooks until the end.
For six months we were sitting on tenterhooks.
Do not put me on tenterhooks with your manliness.
You must already be at your tenterhooks.
And on tenterhooks for the next book.
You got the guy on tenterhooks here.
On tenterhooks for the whole weekend now!
And the chef was on tenterhooks as we ate.
The credibility of the Security Council is on tenterhooks.
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You stand there on tenterhooks for a minute or two.
And this is what has Europe on tenterhooks.
And we wait on tenterhooks to see if he does it in the brown.
You have got me on tenterhooks.
They were on tenterhooks after that when another came.
You have got us on tenterhooks.
I shall definitely be on tenterhooks checking the Euromillion results tomorrow.
The whole street is on tenterhooks.
We are now on tenterhooks to receive the.
Stock exchange operator Nasdaq OMX keeps its customers on tenterhooks.
I was on tenterhooks.
She added that the storyline " kept viewers on tenterhooks.
I am on tenterhooks.
The questions about this heist, which put us on tenterhooks.
We were on tenterhooks.
He had them all in a constant state of anxiety, completely on tenterhooks.
You know we have been on tenterhooks all night?
And we wait on tenterhooks to see if he does it in the brown . Ooh.
Do not keep us on tenterhooks.
Was not everyone on tenterhooks when Ýskender made Fatma disappear at the wedding?
Do not leave me on tenterhooks.
They 'd all been on tenterhooks since the news had come in.
Everyone here is on tenterhooks.
Investors are on tenterhooks about the chance of a downgrade by S & P.
They has us on tenterhooks.
He 's on tenterhooks about the play, but we are fine.
Do not keep me on tenterhooks.
He 's on tenterhooks while they read it.
The dogs are on tenterhooks.
Everybody 's on tenterhooks and we need something delicate, something … something respectful.
We are both on tenterhooks.
We are on tenterhooks to see whether this very ambitious date, 1 March, will hold.
I have been on tenterhooks.
Europe is on tenterhooks in the 2nd decade of the 20th century.
We are all on tenterhooks.
