Sentence examples for like tense from inspiring English sources

The players, dressed in warm-up gear, seemed like tense people trying to act loose.

She was married to an inmate named Jarol, a thief with a sharp sense of humor and arms like tense coils of rope.

In the final duet of "RainForest" (1968) each enters with a different prowl, arms curved behind the back like tense wings.

We are all familiar with basic components of grammar like tense.

We found that the relationship between exotericity and increased form-meaning compositionality holds not only for specific linguistic features like tense and evidentiality, but is also supported by the observation that languages in the exoteric niche are more likely to be classified by typologists as being isolating rather than concatenative or fusional [38].

Vocal sounds can be turned in wind-like (tense voiced vowels [sound example in Additional file 31] or unvoiced vowels [sound example in Additional files 32 and 33]) or bell-like (very low pitch, vocal tract impulse responses [sound example in Additional file 34]) sounds.

Clinical side effects like redness, swelling, desquamation, and pimples, and sensory effects like burning, tense feeling, and itching were recorded by the test subjects.

So if we get anything like the tense, nervous excitement of those three races, and quite a few more like them, then we are in for a real treat.

Iraq feels like a tense police state.

That lat's like a tense slab of beef, right?

Chanel No. 19, according to a review that Burr quotes on his own blog, maintains "unripe greenness like a tense unresolved musical chord to the very end, without succumbing to sweetness".