Then he lifted his arms above his head, flinging the megaphone aside with the same motion, and waited tense and rigid until the students were on their feet.
The thousand boys leaned intently forward, occasionally jumping to their feet to shout and cheer, and then sinking back into their chairs, tense and excited.
He held out both hands to the boys, who had become sotense that they had forgotten to smoke.
The tense silence was shattered by a loud sneeze from Tubby, whose nostrils had become filled with the irritating dust.
In the tense excitement none of them had, however, noticed the first moves in an act that was destined presently to change the whole complexion of the scene.
A moment later the boat was in the water, the armed bluejackets tumbled into her and in the lee of the destroyer rapidly bore down on the sub-sea craft while those on the destroyer watched them with every nerve tense with excitement.
Tense with excitement, leaning forward with breaths coming fast, all were silent, listening with straining ears to the faint buzzing sounds from the instrument while Tom rapidly jotted down the message.
Now wait, Hughes," he said, his voice lowered but still tense with command.
He shook Hughes roughly into wakefulness, giving utterance to sharp, tense orders, as though he dealt with a man of his own troop.
Then she touched the dog who had all this time stood tense at her side.
You see," her low whispered tones were tense with suppressed excitement, "these voodoo people have always been great believers in sacrifice.
Three tense moments followed, moments in which the monkey followed out the girl's pantomime to the last detail.
His face is deeply lined and shows tense sensitiveness in every feature.
The act of writing the answer involves either the acceptance or the regret, as the case may be, and the present tense should be used.
Ambrose nudged Madeline; his whisper was tenseand rapid: "Don't miss nothin'.
Madeline felt something tense and strained working in the short silence.
About this time Laura learned the difference between the present and past tense of the verb.
From tense watchfulness to relief, and now again to absolute despair, her face was an open page.
VI Off there on the bench of desolation a week later she made him a more particular statement, which it had taken the remarkably tense interval to render possible.
The tense expresses the act of the Jews in rejecting Christ.
Pure verbs lengthen the root vowel before a tense characteristic, also in the Perf.
Jack shifted his glance to Dade's face, tense with anxiety while he waited.
He could feel the silence grow tense with expectancy; and when he lifted his eyes, he knew that every man in that tent was staring into his face.
But firmly he kept his arm about her and soon her tense little figure relaxed in that strong clasp.
He saw only the top of the girl's tousled head and the tensegrip of her clasped hands in her lap.
Lighted= is preferable to l[)i]t as the imperfect tense and past participle of light.
The present tenseis lay; the imperfect tense and past participle are laid; and the present participle laying.
Drank=, not drunk, is the imperfecttense of drink.
See is never used in any tense but the present, without an auxiliary, as did, shall, etc.
The present tense is lie; the imperfect tense is lay; the past participle is lain; the present participle is lying.
There was a tense silence of several minutes while Datu looked at Rajah and Rajah at Datu.
Holding himself tense and rigid with every fiber thrilling at the thought of rescue, he listened for the repetition of the shot.
His muscles were tense to spring, when a soft voice of infinite motherliness thrilled him.
He instantly desired to know a hundred things as to the why and wherefore of this strange occurrence, and in short was transformed into one tense note of interrogation.
If you were to sit tense under criticism, you would suggest that you felt the necessity of fighting back.
Your muscles should appear somewhat tense when you are presenting ideas, in order to make the impression that your mind is fully active.
Sidenote: Facial Muscles] Tense jaw muscles, whether large or small, denote the characteristic of persistence.
Differences of Tense are denoted by certain auxiliary particles, the same form in each case serving for all persons and numbers.
And as if under the electric prick of his tensewords the Nor'wester stirred.
While they strained to hear, their ears tense as those of listening deer, they caught a faint metallic sound from the room downstairs.
Slowly, their nerves growing more tense at every step, they worked through the spruces.
Her tense body shivered, as if at escape from menace or danger.
His vivid eyes lightened, his heavy brows smoothed out their puckers, and the tense lines about his lips relaxed.
The man sitting with knitted hands and tensebrain and staring eyes there in the darkening room groaned aloud as he looked back.
As Christmas drew near, and Gueldersdorp, not yet sensible of the belly-pinch of famine, sought to relieve its tense muscles and weary brains by getting up an entertainment here and there, W.
Maggie and he could be self-possessed in a crisis; they could stand a strain; but the strain would show itself either in a tense harshness, or in some unnatural lightness, or even flippancy.
The statement was not quite accurate, but it suited his boiling anger to put it in the present tense instead of in the past.
There was such a tense feeling in the circle of freshmen as Frances stood there, that, as Judy remarked afterwards, they almost crackled with electricity.
Whatever was said was of the tense quiet kind, and presently Nance emerged unscathed from the encounter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
