Example sentences for: sensed

How can you use “sensed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • During the Watergate scandal President Nixon had to face an even more powerful combination, one that incorporated his own nickname in a double that ended with the negative diminutive - y . Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.

  • What's more, Smiley wrote, readers have always sensed that the happy ending is slapped on, a cop-out; probably the book would have dropped out of sight if certain self-promoting writers hadn't started talking it up early in this century.

  • Idimly sensed this whenever, as a boy, I visited my Southern relatives.

  • While writing Big Trouble , the late Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas, who took his own life in June this year, may have sensed that readers in the conservative 1990s would resist being reminded about these ferocious, long-ago American upheavals.

  • I sensed that when I stood beside her in the receiving line at her first wedding, and she muttered under her breath, “This is a bluebird fly-up.”


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