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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:

Enduring a tense dinner out with Ananda Gupta, Kate Wing, and Beth Sherman--a meal marked by painful silences and women running sobbing from the table every few minutes, and thankfully interrupted by Kate Galbraith calling the Health Department and having the joint shut down.
I blurbed The Kiss . The book scared me, not because it concerns incest or happens to be true but because of the malign figure of the father, who reminded me of the character played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter . I also appreciated the drugged cadence of the prose, with a chasm between every two sentences, and the frozen stare of the insistent present tense.
The Spanish crown solved the tense standoff by entrusting Ponce de León with another voyage of exploration.
'] The use of the future tense carries a $12,000 fine, but no prison sentence.
Bob's brow was furrowed; his jaw was tense.