Sentence examples for tense things from inspiring English sources

"It seems like a false alarm, but it shows how tense things are".

"You walk onto most trading floors, and the more tense things get, the quieter they become," Mr. Chandor said over lunch the other day.

"For the past eight years, we've seen expanded healthcare and more acknowledgement of reproductive rights – but I remember how tense things were under George Bush.

While there were no injuries and no arrests, the local police were called, and the fracas underscored just how tense things have become in the closing hours of the bitter primary contest between Mr. Franks, a former United States representative, and Mr. Schundler, the mayor of Jersey City.

Sterling's funeral at the end of this week could give us a sense of how tense things are.

But it was also a powerful reminder that no matter how tense things get between the US and Israel, it is virtually impossible to untangle the the two countries, or roll back US support for Israel.

It was a very tense thing.

"So it's a very emotionally tense thing you do over and over again," he said.

"It's not a past tense thing," Paquin replied, going on to explain to King that being married, happily and monogamously, "doesn't stop your sexuality from existing".

As for the heated and chaotic outcome of the Q&A, Nichols added: "He's a frightening guy with abhorrent beliefs and we knew that this would be a very tense thing but we thought it was important because we think people should know that these kind of people exist.

If I hadn't done that, I would've been frightened, somehow; it would've been a past-tense thing, while having the new poems in it makes it a present-tense thing.