Sentence examples for its tense from inspiring English sources

But what makes this book so remarkable is less what happens in it, and more its tense, eerie and unsettling vibe.

The metaphor of ropes, knots and intertwined relationships begins to fray with lines such as: "The ties that bind, eh?" And the closing scene between Ioana and Hideo that explains the play's title is a little contrived, but in its tense eroticism, it provides an arresting coda.

"It is not without its tense days," she said.

This program uses information on web pages to respond to questions to which the answer is a single word or phrase such as "When was Marilyn Monroe born?" Ask MSR starts by manipulating the question in various ways: by identifying the verb, for example, and then changing its tense or moving it into different positions in the sentence ("Marilyn was Monroe born", "Marilyn Monroe was born" and so on).

While the incident was minor in the context of Google's huge advertising business, it didn't help soothe its tense relationship with content providers.

It took me three nights to endure its tense authenticity.

Instead of leering at a mountain anonymously from a chair, I could run my body over its shoulders, feel it tense up into ridges and relax into bowls.

This is solid, briskly paced historical fiction, though some of its tenser moments might be lost on non-chess-players.

She is broad, not slender; dark, not light; alive, not dead; a flesh-and-blood woman looking at America in all its tenses and challenging America to look right back at her where she stands, right in the center of the frame.

He noted that swell was once an irregular verb, taking swole as its past tense, which is preserved in its participle and adjective form swollen. Clinton's usage, therefore, had some historical linguistic resonance and dialectical support.

Modern Warfare was an explosive title packed with bluster about the sheer scale of 21st century warfare, but its gameplay felt tight and its action tense – more like a close-contested paintball match than a roaring open battlefield.