All looked up with tense expectancy at the arrival of the newcomer.

The watchers were waiting in tense expectancy the result of his temerity.

Without exception, all who stood there waited in tense expectancy for my reply.

A few minutes of tense expectancy went by.

That time had now arrived, and Broghuilio's aides were waiting with a tense expectancy.

But there was a tense expectancy in the very air.

Gordon stood above him, listening with tense expectancy.

Meric felt the tense expectancy of a voyeur watching an empty room, waiting.

An atmosphere of tense expectancy seized the men, and few joked and laughed.

In their eyes be could read tense expectancy, excitement to learn the details of the mission as yet unknown to them.