on tenterhooks
Example Sentences
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As a way to find joy, she said, in a time when news and world events have us all on tenterhooks.
For the past couple of weeks we've all been on tenterhooks waiting for the latest trial of the century, the defamation case by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News.
From Salon
The White House has repeatedly said Mr. Biden plans to seek reelection but the lack of a formal declaration has left Democrats on tenterhooks and wondering if they should prepare for an alternative.
From Washington Times
Winemakers have been on “tenterhooks” since Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, said Douglas MacKenzie, a partner at the consulting firm Kearney, partly because many big banks “don’t know the difference between a $100 case of sauvignon and a $2,000 case” when it comes to valuing collateral that can be “quite liquid, no pun intended.”
From New York Times
So it’s no wonder, he said, that the administration is on tenterhooks.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
