Example sentences for: tense

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

  • (Compare this with Kipling's “Where the old Flotilla lay” where lay is the past tense of lie .)

  • (The WP should have, by the way, changed the present tense in that last sentence to the past, which was clearly Connerly's meaning.

  • Flockhart, the brittle underweight neurotic, yet still somehow appealing, in a tense yet vulnerable way

  • For us it has practically replaced the future tense, as when we say, “I'm going to town tomorrow.”

  • As Fest describes it, the military's first plot against Hitler came in the tense weeks before the conclusion of the 1938 Munich agreement.


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