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Example sentences for: tense

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

Why, for example, must Western relations with a Sinic bloc be typically tense?
And USAT calls it the most tense situation between the two countries in ten years.
The paper says relations remain tense at union headquarters despite the accord.
As Fest describes it, the military's first plot against Hitler came in the tense weeks before the conclusion of the 1938 Munich agreement.
Her partner looked past tense, indeed, completely overwrought, and gratefully stood aside.