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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:

It is likely that you and your daughter have discussed this, but the next time it comes up you might point out that tomcat habits are not likely to change and, further, that children are not benefited by having tense and angry parents.
Gore : It was a tense moment.
Flockhart, the brittle underweight neurotic, yet still somehow appealing, in a tense yet vulnerable way
The Spanish crown solved the tense standoff by entrusting Ponce de León with another voyage of exploration.
A woman's foot is always engaged in a tense visual dialogue with her shoe, demonstrating its own shape and flexibility against the shoe's claims, displaying its own erotic capacities in tandem with those of the suggestive object.