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Example sentences from the Web for tenterhooksNot to say Riva, the veteran screen star, is on tenterhooks. Oscar’s 85-Year-Old Darling: A Talk With Emmanuelle Riva of ‘Amour’|Tracy McNicoll|February 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST Every attorney at his firm is hanging on tenterhooks waiting for the bonus announcements. The D.C. Sex Blogger on How She Went From Slut to Housewife|Jessica Cutler|December 10, 2008|DAILY BEAST As for Halstead, though he remained outwardly cool and collected, these were days when he secretly lived on tenterhooks. The Motor Boat Club in Florida|H. Irving Hancock I waited on tenterhooks; then I could bear the suspense no longer.'
He took a pinch of snuff, he blew his nose with stately deliberation—all in order to keep the petitioner waiting on tenterhooks. Petticoat Rule|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy She felt restless during that week—on tenterhooks to know if she should see the Duke; hot and cold as she went into a room. The Career of Katherine Bush|Elinor Glyn It is the profound intuition of the truth that keeps me on tenterhooks. The Crystal Stopper|Maurice LeBlanc
Words nearby tenterhookstent city, tent dress, tented, tenter, tenterhook, tenterhooks, tent fly, tenth, Tenth Amendment, Tenth Commandment, tenth cranial nerve The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |