Sentence examples for No tense from inspiring English sources

No tense, pregnant silences as the courtroom awaits a verdict, as happened in 2004, when a Marion County jury declared Maye guilty and again less than an hour later, when the same jury condemned Maye to die.

There were no tense conversations, no anxious looks among family.

"At rehearsals, there was no panicking, no drama, no tense look on Stro's face," Mr. Marshall said.

But Ms. Black seemed to take special care to be diplomatic in her responses, and there were no tense moments in the nearly 90 minutes she took questions.

Thanks to its unfortunate location, on a bleak corner between neighborhoods, there is no wait for a table, no tense negotiation with the hostess.

So far there have been no mass encampments on the Nebraska prairie, no tense standoffs with the police, no highway blockades.

The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for "all," "each," "every," "most," or "few" — terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition.

Your muscles are no longer tense, your mind is calm, and you feel relaxed.

There are languages of New Guinea that have no tenses; Australian languages with only three verbs.

Constraints of culture, Everett believes, in turn impoverish the language, which has no tenses, no names for colors and other allegedly unique paucities.

Mandarin has no tenses to indicate past or future.