Sentence examples for tense by from inspiring English sources
The site was calm but tense by late afternoon.
How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense By David Brooks 304 pages.
ON PARADISE DRIVE: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense, by David Brooks.
New ventures undertaken by relative novices are tense by design, and, most of the time, new ventures undertaken by relative novices are meant to die.
His estranged brother greets him with an ax in hand for a reunion rendered all the more tense by a rock crashing through the window.
The build-up had been made, if anything, more tense by Newcastle United threatening to sue the Welsh FA if Bellamy, whose knees were suspect, started.
Such vehicles can be relied on to consume the day's rationed drinking water in their gurgling radiators.Last December I was in a government bus, returning from a tense by-election in the east of the country, when a tire blew at 50-odd miles per hour.
It was a tense possession-by-possession game between the teams widely considered the second and third best in Group A behind the United States.
Many smaller drums have laced and wedged heads, the skin being further tensed by an application of tuning paste.
At the same time, the Israeli government is wary of making tense relations even tenser by retaliating against attacks from Egyptian territory.
Perhaps more unnerving than the landscape was the driver's stoic face -- absent of all affect, tensed by something unnameably sad.
