Sentence examples for mostly tense from inspiring English sources

The green room was mostly tense and silent, with fraternisation between opposing teams minimal.

The violence follows Indian Prime Minister Modi's surprise 25 December visit to Pakistan, where he met with his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif — a trip that marked a significant thaw in the mostly tense relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

But, mostly, the present tense in English, unlike many other languages, is a tense of repetition.

In Smederevo, and elsewhere in Serbia, the atmosphere is mostly quiet, but tense.

Since then the frontier has remained mostly quiet, if tense, but the infighting in Syria is posing new challenges.

With the present tense mostly in a muddle, it has been safer to talk about the past, and to ask: Could we have seen this coming?

The band played mostly in a tense, collective murmur until the end, when the pianist Jami Calabuig worked Cuban montuno figures into the bolero "Dos Gardenias," and the whole balance shifted: rhythm spoke up, and the music briefly and definitively became non-Andalusian.

Outwardly I was mostly still and tense.

People always ask whether this period was tense, with mostly black students and a mostly white staff, but it really wasn't.

It was all deliberation: a slightly tense but mostly peaceful hour.

The dynamic performance brings energy and animation to a text written as a sort of collective monologue, recounting events mostly in the past tense.