Sentence examples for tense world from inspiring English sources

Today's game was splendidly fluid and much more wide open than the tense World Cup final.

The two countries met on March 30th in a tense world cup semi-final in Mohali, north India.

Bookish and headstrong, she floats through a tense world of innuendo and threats, seeming all the more vulnerable for it.

It is a tense world in which the stakes are terrifyingly high - certainly for two cops who are presumably on regular police pay.

For the rest of the seminar, as we practiced other unmentionables, I sat there on the tennis court, breathing thinly in my mask, wondering how our sad, tense world had come to this.

In 1962, the Giants and the Yankees played a tense World Series that went down to the bottom of the ninth of Game 7, with the Giants trailing, 1-0, witwotwoutut and runners on second and third.

Our present tense world-view can be made to shrink to fit a button press.

But, her present-tense world at least is presented with skill and humour.

In a tense, uncertain world, folks want to be entertained and moved by the pursuit of something purer and larger than themselves and their dreary problems.

It gives us a quasi-telepathic access to a tense, internal world, a little similar to Douglas Gordon and Philippe Pareno's Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait (2006).

Here are all the elements of Runyon's voice: the perpetual present tense, the world without conditional moods, the stilted, over-elaborate attempt at precision, and, above all, a way of life and a social class evoked purely through vernacular.