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Now, viewers remain on tenterhooks amid speculation that she may be in the grip of more than one abductor.
www.irishexaminer.com These processes are followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, to which it is attached by tenterhooks.
en.wikipedia.org So now we're on tenterhooks, waiting like a nervous family in a maternity ward.
www.dailymail.co.uk Floating fragments hang on hooks and the idiom of being on tenterhooks drifts away from the performing area and into the minds of those watching.
www.theupcoming.co.uk The list of culprits was published morning by morning in small installments, so that hundreds of politicians had to live on tenterhooks for months.
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- tennis racket
- tenon
- tenor
- tenpin bowling
- tense
- tenterhooks
- tenth
- tentmaker
- tent peg
- tent pole
- tenuous