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Tense in sentence

325 examples of Tense in a sentence

And the thing is, the present tense is where we live.
We go to meetings in the present tense; we go on family vacations in the present tense; we go to the polls and vote in the present tense.
Understanding that these categories are really much more unstable than we thought makes me tense.
It makes me tense from the point of view of thinking about democracy.
Most people, when this subject is brought up, get tense and resist it: "Art doesn't feed me, and right now I'm busy.
There's a dynamic mixture of acetone, isoprene and carbon dioxide that changes when our heart speeds up, when our muscles tense, and all without any obvious change in our behaviors.
More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past.
Our heart rate speeds up, breathing quickens, and muscles tense.
Anger is accompanied by lowered eyebrows drawn together, tense and narrowed eyes, and tight lips; disgust, by the lips pulled up and the nose crinkling.
It's a past tense.
Then we make it "can't pay," and we can make it "couldn't pay" by making it the past tense.
There are two pairs of shoes, a man's pair and a woman's pair, and they play out this slow, tense chase around the window in which the man scoots up behind the woman and gets in her personal space, and then she moves away.
My vivacious sister, who gets more exercise than I do, and who, like perhaps many people in this room, increasingly talks about a lethal illness in the past tense.
In that first reunion, it was very awkward and tense moments, and to lessen the tension, we decided to go for a walk.
So it was pretty obvious after this process that, well, we chicken out here and go away because it's too tense, or we go even further in asking, what else is bothering you?
For example, 1H is one hand, 2H is two hand, present tense happens closest and in front of the body, future is in front of the body and the past is to your back.
This is our plight in the 21st century: our backs hurt, our necks hurt, everything hurts, because we're stressed and tense all the time.
You plant your feet, tighten your belly, and tense your back, generating enough force to yank it open.
But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense?
Tense muscles and inflamed, sensitive nerves cause varying degrees of discomfort in each headache.
In a G-Zero world, this is going to be a very tense 10 years for Mr. Putin.
It was the unwillingness of his government to engage in conflict with other governments, in tense discussions, all the while, innocent people were being harmed.
It's the idea that "read" is the past tense of "read," and they're both spelled the same way.
Your neck and back tense up, you slouch.
It's the classic race to the bottom when you have to get attention, and it's so tense.
This is a tense moment in the first football game, I think.
For example, if I feel unexpected pain in my body that I have not experienced before and that I cannot attribute, then all of a sudden, my mind might turn a tense back into heart disease or calf muscle pain into deep vein thrombosis.
This is where the Marines in the audience get kind of tense.
And when I talk about Aaron, I slip so easily into the present tense, and I've always thought that made me weird.
So it will be a very tense moment, you know, as we are watching that spacecraft landing on another planet.
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