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.

  • The ambiguity of Stauffenberg's attitude toward Jews can be sensed in this inscrutable sentence from a resistance manifesto: "We want a New Order which makes all Germans supporters of the state and guarantees them law and justice, but we scorn the lie of equality and we bow before the hierarchies established by nature."

  • 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.”

  • 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.


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