Sentence examples for tense were from inspiring English sources

Negotiations between the creditors and the Asian companies, which people involved described as tense, were expected to continue today.

Before administering these tests, present and past simple tense were taught to the both groups of learners (implicit &explicit group) in three sessions.

British-Boer relations in South Africa, always tense, were further worsened after the Jameson raid of December 1895, and, in October 1899, war began.

"Couldn't tell the time". The relations between city and private ambulance services, always tense, were also badly strained by the surge of ambulances that came to the scene.

So tense were the final moments that Kansas celebrated as if it had won the championship, not simply advanced to it.

So tense were those final seconds that afterward Alabama quarterback A J McCarron said he would "worry about this game" before he turned his attention to the Crimson Tide's title game opponent, Notre Dame.

The preferred past tense is "sank".

What tense was I living in?

Byrne, once notoriously tense, is almost loquacious.

Sicario – still, slow, tense – is unusual.

9. It's tense, is what I'm saying.