Sentence examples for tense to be from inspiring English sources

It was very tense — to be honest — and very, very difficult to work.

"It really doesn't matter when you're too young to remember," he sings, his voice cracking as a beloved friendship sinks into the past tense, to be treasured.

The conflict between the profit motive and talk of employee wellbeing seems too tense to be soothed by a few in-house yoga classes, the traditional giant cheques handed out at local schools, or office recycling schemes.

"This is too tense to be able to focus on some 16th century popes and their taste in art... .. 89th over: England 254-7 (in reply to South Africa's 309; Bairstow 95, Swann 2) On the England balcony, Andrew Strauss is munching on his right fingernail.

Present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses to be exact!

When considering action verbs, RTs to future tense were faster in the right than in the left space (p<0.0001); RTs to past tense tended to be faster in the left than in the right space (p = 0.09).

The conditional tense was to be my lot.

It's a sweet but tense spot to be in.

It was a tense confrontation, to be sure.

My three months in Athens has been a very tense time to be a Liverpool fan.

The Hours, imagining this, must do so in the present tense, trying to be true to a life of hours.