Sentence examples for intense buildup from inspiring English sources

Last winter the team had a much less intense buildup to the three-Test series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates and came badly unstuck.

The only problem is the intense buildup – after which, standing in your ballgown drinking dandelion and burdock out of a plastic cup must be "totes trag!" as the youth of today say; a kind of Henley regatta for teen losers.

Jones (left) knows this will be the most important game of his short tenure in the England hot seat to date, but he attempted to defuse what is sure to be an intense buildup to the game.

Despite intense buildup to this historic, first-ever postseason meeting between the two longtime rivals, the series proved to be somewhat anticlimactic, with New York winning the series four games to one.

"It's very much coming into view, and the closer it comes the more intense the buildup," says Bolton, a 38-year-old from Harrogate whose first job after university was in a marketing role for the 1995 World Cup that marked league's centenary – making her well-qualified to return after contrasting spells as a business development manager with Deloitte, and as Wigan's chief executive.

So intense was the buildup to that first Test, so mob-handed the media presence, that there was an almost tangible sense of yearning.

The once intense and intimidating buildup to the 100 is fast turning into a series of vaudevillian shorts as the camera pans across the starting line.

The once intense and intimidating buildup to the 100 is fast turning into a series of vaudevillian shorts as the camera pans across the finalists.

Facing Stephens, 20, the youngest player remaining in the draw, Williams said she knew the buildup was intense.

The first of the Live 8 concerts, in which U2, Bono's band, was among those performing, were only a month away, to be followed by a G8 economic summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, and the buildup was intense.

So far, senior Administration officials said, Franks is following in the path of his predecessor, Marine General Anthony Zinni, and insisting, despite pressure from civilians in the Pentagon, on an intense and careful American buildup in the region before Iraq can be attacked.