Crossword-Solution: TENSING
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TENSING | anagram | NESTING |
We have 29 clues for the answer “TENSING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ___ Norkay, conqueror of Everest. | 1 answer |
| ___ Norkay, Everest climber. | 1 answer |
| Stiffening, with "up" | 1 answer |
| Showing strain, maybe | 1 answer |
| Norkay of Everest fame. | 1 answer |
| Making taut | 1 answer |
| Making less lax | 1 answer |
| Getting wound up | 1 answer |
| Getting uptight | 1 answer |
| Becoming tight | 1 answer |
| BECOMING THREADBARE | 10 answers |
| BECOMING PUTRID | 10 answers |
| BECOMING SLIMMER | 10 answers |
| BECOMING MATURE | 10 answers |
| BECOMING APPARENT | 11 answers |
| BECOMING REALITY | 11 answers |
| shrivelling | 43 answers |
| metamorphosing | 43 answers |
| flexing | 43 answers |
| degenerating | 43 answers |
| truncation | 44 answers |
| tightening | 44 answers |
| constricting | 44 answers |
| altering | 44 answers |
| withdrawing | 45 answers |
| contracting | 47 answers |
| Sinking ___ | 47 answers |
| compendium | 56 answers |
| changing | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TENSING (5)
And such an end! Tarzan of the Apes, tensing his mighty muscles, strained at the bonds that pinioned him; but they had been re-enforced many times at the instigation of the Russian, so that not even the ape-man’s giant brawn could budge them.
This was as exasperating as the real thing, for each time Daylight was fooled into tightening his leg grip and into a general muscular tensing of all his body.
Mentally and physically Linda shook herself, then she straightened to full height, tensing her muscles and holding the sheet before her with a hand on each side to keep it from shaking, while she read: My dear Madam: I sincerely apologize for having waited so long before writing you of the very exceptional reception which your articles have had.
Slap it into ’em—the swine that think they can put as raw a deal as this over on us.” It was Buckwheat who made the first move; but so tentative was it that it got no farther than a tensing of the legs and a sway forward of the shoulders.
All acids, with the exception of carbonic acid, exert a tensing influence upon the tissues of the body, while alkalies have a relaxing effect.
Quotes with TENSING (3)
Ever since I’ve met you, I’ve wanted to break every rule.” Aiden turned away, the muscles in his neck tensing. He sighed. “You’ll become the centre of someone’s world one day. And he’ll be the luckiest son of a bitch on this earth.
I never thought that it would look like this. The October of 2009 was a difficult period, and not just because of the bad weather. Attacks intensified against military units and every patrol was highly dangerous. A lot of time has passed since the first time I was fired on in the open. Suddenly, bullets fly right over my head… fraction of a second separates me from tensing my muscles and starting to shoot from a gun turret placed on top our Humvee. I know that I was lucky as …
Every Sunday behind bibles, virgins, soldiers tight against me, longing, and my pelvis rubbing gods'to the big black woman voices. Soldiers tight against me, longing, all that rising, sitting, kneelingto the big black woman voices, spirits warming, tensing, folding, thenall that rising, sitting, kneelinglike some kind of dance, a mating, spirits warming, tensing, folding andgod went “Shhhhh” between my thighs —
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1956–2020).