Sentence examples for tense start from inspiring English sources

Mussina is putting it away, a keepsake from his first, tense start in the Subway Series.

A tense start to the year, as Portuguese bond yields rose, was followed by only a brief period of calm.

RAYS 3, TIGERS 1 Jeremy Hellickson earned his fifth June win, and host Tampa Bay won a game that had a tense start.

In a tense start to the second set he complained to umpire Carlos Bernardes about the noise coming from the watching Nadal camp.

After a tense start the players traded century breaks before Robertson took the last two frames of the session with breaks of 72 and 60 for a 5-3 lead.

Negotiations got off to a tense start in early February when WGA representatives accused the producers alliance of seeking $60 million in "rollbacks" from writers, including cuts in the union's health and pension plans as well as reductions in pay rates for screenplays and TV residuals.

This year was already highly tense — starting in the fall, China's leadership changes hands for only the fourth time since the 1949 Communist revolution, in an intricate, hidden process of selection that the Brookings Institution's Chinese politics expert, Cheng Li, has described as "turbulent".

After a tense, scoreless start, the game first turned in the sixth, when Brett Gardner floated a ball down the left-field line that fell underneath the glove of Lucas Duda, who made an awkward diving attempt to catch it.

Start with the present tense first and give the student lots of practice using this tense.

Start with teaching the present tense first.

People drive reactively; they get nervous, they get tense and start taking it out on other drivers".