Sentence examples for made tense from inspiring English sources
Bussy-Castelnau, who had been recalled from Hyderabad, was captured; and Lally retreated to Pondicherry, where, after an eight-month siege made tense by bitter recrimination, he surrendered in January 1761.
— As the words "photo" flashed red on the tote board, the trainers Ken McPeek and Kiaran McLaughlin made tense small talk, unsure whose colt exactly got his nostril over the wire first.
The 1964 riot, three years earlier, on Philadelphia's Columbia Avenue, and the ones that summer in Newark and Plainfield, New Jersey, made tense what otherwise would have been dispassionate discussions around pedagogy, the achievement gap in performance between black and white students, and the adoption of a more culturally inclusive curriculum.
The man, Michael Jones, was not seriously injured, but the shooting, in Soundview -- a neighborhood made tense by the police shootings of two unarmed black men since early 1999 -- led to an encounter between the officers and a small crowd that gathered and shouted anti-police remarks.
What's guiding you when you make tense shifts like this within a narrative?
At the same time, the Israeli government is wary of making tense relations even tenser by retaliating against attacks from Egyptian territory.
Aguilera and Premier, along with a gifted songwriter named Kara DioGuardi, make tense and fervid dance music on the first single, "Ain't No Other Man".
Israel says members of the group consistently interfere with operations being carried out by the Israeli security forces, and thereby make tense situations even more dangerous.
Punk funk, as it was called in the seventies and early eighties, made a return, and New York bands like the Rapture and their production team, the DFA, started making tense, repetitive dance records that drew from both disco and rock.
This made me tense, and she seemed to understand that.
