Sentence examples for small tense from inspiring English sources
The phrase "small tense" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a specific context related to grammar or linguistics, but it is not commonly recognized. Example: "In this sentence, the use of the small tense indicates a brief action."
Her surprisingly small, tense mouth holds all the suspense in the story….
"He was small and tense and wound up," Sumption remembered fondly.
Like the rest of him, Haq's voice was unexpectedly small but tense, carrying a threat of excitability, as if something in him were coiled and ready to spring.
The company's veterans and the testing officers said their main message was that the way to keep safe is by focusing on the small, present-tense details of helicopter flying, ingrained by training and repetition.
One thing that was immediately apparent was just how much in the present tense small children tend to live.
— 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.
While only a small number of tense and aspect affixes exist, the interplay between those in the verbal prefix and in the suffix, can generate more highly specified temporal and aspectual clauses.
Facing the sleepless Paytons in the tense small-town courtroom is a team of well-coiffed corporate litigators.
Judge Catherine C. Eagles decided that the four alternate jurors, who had provided their own small sideshow to the tense days of deliberation, could go home to wait out their tour of duty "on standby".
Director Jon Watts recently became the surprise choice to helm the next Spider-Man reboot because of his work on this tense, twisty small-town thriller (which he co-wrote with Christopher Ford).
