Sentences with tense
tense
T t - This gesture of goodwill did little to improve the tense atmosphere at the talks.
- Dart, who had at first been very tense, at last relaxed.
- ▶ USAGE: Tenses in English are usually listed as present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect (pluperfect), and future perfect, in accordance with Latin models, and English tenses other than the simple present and simple past are formed by the use of an auxiliary verb with a participle or an infinitive
- She lay, eyes shut, body tense.
- Newman's stomach muscles tensed. [VERB]
- When we are under stress our bodies tend to tense up. [VERB PREPOSITION]
- It was as though Corinne was already dead: they were speaking of her in the past tense.
- A tense day
- In English the vowel (iː ) in 'beam' is tense
- The present tense of “be”
- A tense person.
- A tense moment.