TENSE in a Sentence
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51 example sentences for TENSE, such as:
1. For a moment the air was tense.
2. Indicative mood, present tense.
3. For a tense moment, there was silence.
4. Mrs. Trenor sharply corrected the tense.
5. Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence.
2. Indicative mood, present tense.
3. For a tense moment, there was silence.
4. Mrs. Trenor sharply corrected the tense.
5. Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TENSE
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tense
v. become tense, nervous, or uneasy
n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 For a tense moment, there was silence.
2 Even Melanie, now great with child, forgot her modesty and worked feverishly side by side with Prissy, Cookie and Scarlett, her face as tense as any of the wounded.
3 Secretly she was just as frightened as he was, but it angered her to be reminded of it every minute by his tense, drawn face.
4 He leaned back carelessly in his chair and looked into her tense face and his own dark face was inscrutable.
5 For a moment the air was tense.
6 She was born in the middle of a week when frenzied excitement gripped Atlanta and the air was tense with expectation of disaster.
7 Mrs. Trenor sharply corrected the tense.
8 Sometimes she one-stepped demurely; sometimes, in dread of life's slipping past, she turned into a bacchanal, her tender eyes excited, her throat tense, as she slid down the room.
9 There was a look of excitement upon her face, of tense effort, as of one struggling mightily, or witnessing a struggle.
10 St. Clare, like most men of his class of mind, cordially hated the present tense of action, generally; and, therefore, he was considerably annoyed by Miss Ophelia's downrightness.
11 Indicative mood, present tense.
12 He was pale and tense, withdrawn into himself, and obstinately determined to save his country and his own position, let it be Lloyd George or who it might.
13 But his voice was a little tense when he spoke to her, and he began to be silent whenever she was present.
14 She saw his eyes, tense and brilliant, fierce, not loving.
15 The man looked down in silence at the tense phallos, that did not change.
Example Sentence:
1 Add -ed to all these verbs to put them in the past tense.
2 The audience was tense as they waited for the acrobat to jump.
3 Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence.
4 There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.
5 This gesture of goodwill did little to improve the tense atmosphere at the talks.
6 For a few tense minutes, the astronauts lost radio contact with mission control.
7 Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
8 After a tense standoff with riot police, the authorities made the fateful decision to break up the peaceful protest with force.
9 The northern city of Kano, which has a history of sectarian violence is especially tense, but has remained peaceful.
10 Mandela led South Africa through a tense transition from apartheid to democracy and became president in the country's first all-race elections in 1994.
11 McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
12 The athletes waited, with each sinew of theirs tensed.
13 He tensed himself for the jump and landed expertly on the other side.