Sentence examples for tense down from inspiring English sources

"Things are getting very tense down here," Mr. Harris said, pointing to hideouts on his ranch that illegal immigrants had used to elude the United States Border Patrol.

She's getting tenses down, and every once in awhile, she'll put together a sentence with multiple clauses and a semi-colon.

I was a seasoned bicyclist who rode every day for commuting and recreation yet still felt tense wheeling down busy city streets.

Passive body language is tense, shut down, and withdrawn.

Events kick off with a tense sit-down and end with a beautifully shot shoot-out.

Connie Kaiserman CW'67, Santa Fe, N.M., writes that she knitted her first "Twitten" ("a two-handed mitten couples can wear while holding hands to stay snug and warm") for then-boyfriend and current husband, Steve Robinson C'66, so they could hold hands during tense fourth downs during frigid Penn football games in the mid-60s.

And it's trying to face down a general tide of Spotify discontent among labels and artists — the most recent lashing of which has seen Spotify embroiled in a tense take-down by megastar Taylor Swift.

He had a tense sit-down with "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier in December and another tough interview a few months later with Megyn Kelly.

Assertive body language isn't tense, shut-down or withdrawn; it moves steadily and smoothly.

Relations between Slav and Albanian in both Macedonia and Montenegro, already tense, may break down if repression in Kosovo goes on.

To mark this new departure, and to signal the undigested immediacy of a deeply personal journey, Thubron uses the present tense ("We come down gently..."...