Sentence examples for tense have from inspiring English sources

Mr. Karzai and Mr. Obama, whose relationship has been alternately awkward or tense, have been presenting a more unified front than they have in the past.

So tense have things gotten that the White House adviser David Axelrod has had discussions with the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, but to little avail.

These changes in the auxiliary (sometimes described as changes in "tense") have led some writers to argue that conditionals in English involve implicit quantification across times (see, for example, von Fintel 1998).

Next, we create two 'trace' features, one based on prepositions and the other on verbs, since prepositions and verb tense have been shown to play an important role in temporal relation classification.

Second and more importantly, studies on the English past tense have suggested that processing differences between regular and irregular past tense forms might be due to differences in phonological complexity (Bird et al. 2003; McClelland and Patterson, 2002).

If things get tense, have another potluck and work it out over something yummy.

Five minutes later, the past tense had morphed into the present tense.

The Old Armenian present tense has in both modern languages the value of a subjunctive.

The northern border with Lebanon, though tense, has been mostly quiet.

So tense had the situation in Abyei become that last year much of its capital was burned to the ground in fighting between militias from the two sides.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Debating Eli Manning's value, both historically and in the present tense, has become something of a cottage industry for football observers everywhere.