Sentence examples for time tense from inspiring English sources

This is the third of Weaver's books featuring Raker, and they get better each time – tense, complex, sometimes horrific, written with flair as well as care.

One of the most exquisitely painful short pieces I have read for a long time, tense and tragic, with no word out of place and no word superfluous, it actually promises more than the rest of the book can deliver.

At the same time, tense your stomach muscles, and hold this position for 10 seconds.

At the same time, tense your leg muscles and be sure to keep them bent or straightened correctly.

Moreover, only about ten seconds pass between the moment DuBose appears to start the car to the time Tensing gets off the ground and starts running, from about the 1 54 mark to 2 04 in the above video. .

Both sides claimed victory in a conciliatory but at times tense news conference at the gallery.

It was at times tense, and during the session, Devon remained seated nearby, watching his master intently.

Meanwhile, Thursday's lone major movie presentation, staged by Summit Entertainment to promote two science-fiction films, "Divergent" and "Ender's Game," was at times tense.

The Japanese F-15 fighters are engaged in an increasingly busy, and at times tense, game of cat-and-mouse with rapidly modernizing China, just across the East China Sea.

Debora L. Spar, the president of Barnard, said the relationship with Columbia was complicated and at times tense, but she dismissed the online commentary as what "probably is 19-year-olds writing at 4 30 in the morning".

Under a vigorous and at times tense cross-examination by Mr. Conroy's lawyer that lasted nearly four hours, Mr. Loja on Wednesday gave confusing and occasionally contradictory answers.