How to Use tenterhook in a Sentence

tenterhook

noun

• For them, the concert hall is a place of tenterhooks and dueling impulses.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• China’s tech businesses have been on tenterhooks in recent months.
  — Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• Since Season 1 of Riverdale ended, fans have been on tenterhooks.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Sep. 2017
• Back then, critics were hardly on tenterhooks waiting for the man's latest tunes, either.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• While that's left traders on tenterhooks, some are arguing conditions are ripe for a market rebound.
  — Andreea Papuc, Bloomberg.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• The country has been on tenterhooks in recent weeks, with many voters eager to learn if any evidence of hacking had been found.
  — CNN, 21 Sep. 2017
• Still on tenterhooks after the gripping final scene of Outlander's season premiere?
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2018
• The side's impressive counter-attacking football is bound to offer some hope to the fans, who remain on tenterhooks as their team now sit just one point away from the bottom three.
  — SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• With global powers on tenterhooks, the risk of a miscalculation -- and a knee-jerk deployment of a nuclear weapon -- would increase.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 20 July 2019
• The world was on tenterhooks until the following morning, waiting to see if, and how, the president would tweet in response to the entire situation.
  — Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
• The taut lyricism of Lee’s work, a lyricism on tenterhooks, counteracts but cannot entirely transform a world still echoing with his father’s reprimands.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• Now, Klopp has established a style of football which severely limits the oppositions chances on goal, but the feeling of being on tenterhooks remains deeply ingrained at the club.
  — SI.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Herein lies dark soundscaping, tropicalia on tenterhooks, broken beat, Tuareg melodies, Bahía drumming.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2018
• Specifically, Remington — indeed, the entire firearms industry — is on tenterhooks waiting for a potential landmark ruling from the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018