Sentence examples for of tense from inspiring English sources

Weeks of tense wrangling followed.

After two days of tense politicking, Vice Pres.

In the lobby, a thrum of tense murmuring began.

I had braced myself for crowds of tense shoppers.

Plenty of tense moments were caught on film.

"It's been kind of tense and awful," Sabrina said.

It has strong language, sexuality and scenes of tense violence.

In four days of tense negotiations, the auditors pushed hard for cutting the bureaucracy.

So it is progress that Japan and China now acknowledge "the emergence of tense situations" there.

After the past-tense "said," sequence-of-tense rules require "had been continuing" or "was continuing".

Sequence-of-tense rules demand a regular past-tense verb: "a sales agent asked whether the kiss was needed".