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Example sentences for "sensed"

Lexicographically close words:
sensationalist; sensationalistic; sensationally; sensations; sense; senseless; senselesse; senselessly; senselessness; senses
  1. Star Arrow turned to look at White Bear, who sensed a question: Could you be one who helps me care for my land?

  2. White Bear sensed that something very important was about to happen and that he must wait with Wolf Paw.

  3. He sensed a feeling in her that was more than the affection of an aunt for a nephew.

  4. She sensed that behind that anger there lurked fear.

  5. Raoul sensed that Auguste's words were aimed not at him, but at the men behind him.

  6. He moved one step at a time, as if in great pain, and Auguste sensed that he was afflicted with many ailments and troubled by many old wounds.

  7. All at once, Auguste sensed that there was a baby growing inside the woman holding him.

  8. He felt a firm grip on his forearm; Ford, sitting beside him, letting him know that he sensed his pain.

  9. He sensed that Jackson must have demands in mind, and knew that because of what he had been--old Indian killer--the Sauk would not be helped by his yielding to those demands.

  10. Redbird sensed a silence and realized that Yellow Hair was no longer crying.

  11. He suddenly sensed that something was wrong.

  12. His heart fluttered in his chest like a trapped bird as he sensed himself coming closer to the British Band's winter hunting camp.

  13. Somehow she knew that he was withdrawing from her, not because he had sensed her thought about Wolf Paw, but because he was troubled by some thought of his own.

  14. As she sensed that, her heart sank further.

  15. White Bear sensed deadly falsehood in the words of the Winnebago Prophet.

  16. And yet, he thought, as he breathed deeply to calm himself, it was Nancy who was concealing the truth and Bennett and Raoul who sensed what had really happened.

  17. He might have gone on to me by the hour, and I not sensed it.

  18. But the great arms, which might have weighed tons, though Bentley sensed no strain, raised to the door and fumbled dumbly, clumsily.

  19. It was horrible in the extreme to contemplate, yet Bentley knew when he glanced swiftly at the girl that she had sensed the same thing and was fighting to keep the natural horror she felt at such a ghastly thought from being noticeable.

  20. Ellen still slept, but she must have sensed the near presence of potential enemies, for she was stirring fitfully, preparing to waken.

  21. I hardly think Paul knew I was there or sensed that I followed where he carried in his arms the bruised body that had housed the spirit of Maida.

  22. Larry had sensed this when he suggested that police or an official party be sent at once to capture Migul and rescue Mary Atwood and me.

  23. And, as I leaped from my plane that I had landed back of our lines, I sensed that the enemy was withdrawing.

  24. They had sensed something not simian about him which puzzled them.

  25. His eyes never moved, yet I sensed a furtiveness as marked as if he had peered suspiciously about.

  26. The doctor's face was white and drawn as though he, too, sensed some horror in that frantic flight.

  27. She sensed the terror and agony in his voice.

  28. Yet as we looked at each other in the manner of children, the Judge, I thought, sensed a significance.

  29. I nodded to show her that now I, too, was beginning to feel the effect of the strange state of affairs which I had first sensed from the other side of the blue wall.

  30. I had sensed something beyond the wall, and as science, after all, is not so much truth as a search for truth, I would perhaps have done well to have retained an open mind.

  31. I had always believed in a Divine Spirit if for no other reason than that I and all living things through all time had sensed somewhere beyond their full understanding the existence of a dynamic of creation and order.

  32. Chet even sensed the contempt that accompanied the thoughts.

  33. Chet was chilled with a nameless horror as he sensed the cold deadliness and implacable hate in the traces of emotion that clung and came to him with the thoughts.

  34. He heard nothing, and he knew with entire certainty that there was no audible call, yet he sensed the message at the instant the ape-man moved.

  35. Schwartzmann must have sensed it even before he saw the onrushing death.

  36. There were stairs; how he sensed them Chet could not have told.

  37. It was another instant before he sensed that his companions were still marching--trudging stiffly, woodenly off through the dark.

  38. He had hardly sensed the danger when it was upon him.

  39. The unseeing watchers of the forest had sensed what was unheard and unseen, and Chet knew that his own inner warning had been true.

  40. And even in that flash of strangeness he sensed the fact that at the time he had met her she was merely the voice of a vast insurgent spirit, merely the instrument of a great event.

  41. Marrin sensed the danger in the shop's quiet.

  42. She sensed in the policeman's word a menace to Rhona.

  43. His mother sensed then the struggle in his mind.

  44. At their first momentary clash on the day when Hampstead, the book agent, had broken open the church which Burbeck had nailed up, the older man thought he sensed in the younger the presence of a spiritual endowment greater than his own.

  45. He had sensed the solemn truth from the moment of that first touch upon the huge, unresponsive shoulder.

  46. John at his distance sensed her feeling of outrage in the fierce rustling of her skirts as she receded down the hall, and presently heard her voice saying icily: "The open door!

  47. Angelina stared at him in the glass, until his eyes found hers, and he sensed her disapproval at once.

  48. His hand on the wrought-iron railing, he sensed his own mortality.

  49. As he went inside the house he smelled the aroma of the crushed leaves; as he stood in the doorway of his bedroom he sensed the oily pungency.

  50. It was evident that the goose-hunter had not sensed the cry of his partner or he would not have betrayed his position.

  51. Slowly the face of Marcel changed with surprise as he sensed the import of Kovik's words.

  52. Baird told himself that he had sensed the potential in Ann, on the day when he had captured a kiss.

  53. Just as now, when she sensed tension in Edward, in Garvin, and in Judith, she was unable to determine the cause.

  54. It was not his voice that acquainted Judith with the chill he felt; she simply sensed it.

  55. Their entrance into the woods was like passing from a darkness in which objects could be sensed into the thicker blackness of a tunnel.

  56. Some called her dull, but rather, it seems, she early sensed her fate.

  57. She sensed the heavy breathing of her nurse, the movements of the servant as she turned in her bed, and sometimes even snored, she knew it!

  58. He sensed it now and instantly let go of the stick, buried his head in his arms, and let his whole body go limp.

  59. Yet, perhaps they sensed it unconsciously, for their step did become faster, their hearts lighter, and the hope they would get through somehow mounted higher and higher in their thoughts.

  60. His whole body sensed that moment of stalling; that moment when the lift of the wings was absolutely nil.

  61. Seems like she sort o' sensed thet he wouldn't come again while she was livin'.

  62. I thought she was wonderful set to go, and wonderful set to stay, but I never sensed what was up.

  63. He sensed them, and he thought they were trying to speak to him; but didn't feel as if he was going to get near.

  64. That is not because the sun has lost its heat, but because he hasn't got the same body that sensed the heat.

  65. She sensed again that indefinable brother-like quality, so fine, so almost invisible, which seemed to be an inalienable trait in these wild cowboys.

  66. Quick to note a change in these men, she now sensed one that was unfathomable.

  67. And at these moments she sensed more than brotherly regard.

  68. Strong arms lifted him up, up; above him he sensed the eyes of his torturer, dim in moonlight, and he beat his clubbed left fist into that face.

  69. He might have stayed on here quite happily for any space of time, but more and more Vic felt that he was an intruder; he sensed it, rather than received a hint of word or eye.

  70. He turned, so blind with fury that he shouldered the door on his way out and so, into the saddle, with Grey Molly standing like a figure of rock, as if she sensed his mood.

  71. They must have sensed the meaning of this maneuver at once, for hardly had he stretched out east when voices shouted out of the hills, and around and over several low knolls came forty horsemen, racing.

  72. She trusted Black Bart with all her heart, as only a child can trust dumb animals, but now she sensed a change in him.

  73. Oliver enjoyed holding Emma and being fatherly, although he sensed that his presence was not entirely necessary.

  74. Underneath all the nautical bullshit, Oliver sensed a fairly sharp guy, hard-working anyway.

  75. She sensed that, too, although they hadn't talked about it directly.

  76. Even across the wire she sensed the strain in his tense tones.

  77. Suddenly she sensed something strange in the other's manner.

  78. She sensed a sensation in herself and straightway awaking opened her eyes and beheld a youth embracing her, so she asked him, "Ho thou, who art thou?

  79. The girls had talked so rapidly and in such a low tone that Etta had not heard them, but now as she sensed that they were about to leave, she began to sob again.

  80. Instinctively, she had sensed that all was not as it should be.

  81. He sensed its departure, too, and the fact that Storch was flinging himself upon the pile of rags which served as his bed.

  82. In spite of its inconsistency he had sensed a certain habitual tenderness in her voice, as if custom were demanding its due.

  83. He had moments of consciousness when he sensed Storch's figure moving in a sort of mist, flashing a green smile through the gloom.

  84. While he still saw the light in the woman's eyes and sensed the meaning of her smile, he saw and sensed as clearly the loving innocence that had shown in the little girl's face as it was lifted up to his.

  85. Grant and Bim, still unaware of the significance of all this preparation, sensed the growing tensity of emotions all about them.

  86. Grant sensed he had made some blunder, though he could not for the life of him guess how his innocent question could have offended.

  87. Vaguely, dimly, he sensed an awakening something within him which seemed to be striving to give birth to some discordant element that sought to undermine and shake his resolution.

  88. A well-defined scent spoor might never be forgotten by a beast if it had first been sensed under unusual circumstances, and so Tarzan was confident that Numa's nose had already reminded him of all the circumstances of their brief connection.

  89. He had heard noisy little Manu, and even the soft rustling of the parting shrubbery where Sheeta passed before either of these alert animals sensed his presence.

  90. Instantly, as though Nature had given him eyes in the back of his head, Tarzan sensed the impending danger and, dropping Bara to the ground, turned with raised spear.

  91. Instantly the lion grasped the possibilities of the situation, and, too, perhaps he sensed the fact that the man-thing had deliberately opened a way for his escape.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.