Example sentences for: sensed

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

  • Though hardly an expert in X-ray diffraction, Watson sensed that it was strong evidence for helices and sketched it for Crick on his return to Cambridge.

  • The Bostonian must have sensed that, compared with the Texan, he came off as snobbish, petulant, and obtusely rich.

  • 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.

  • By Saturday, the pundits were smelling smoke but decided that the press still hadn't "found the fire" (Evan Thomas, Inside Washington ). Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ) sensed an element of "Greek tragedy" to the story, although he didn't specify whether he was referring to Oedipus Rex or Antigone . Thomas and Jack Germond found it easier to cast aspersions on Clinton's partner in ...

  • 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."


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