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    1. Their noonmeal was made all the more tense by the presence of Venna and the need to appear that they weren't tense because of her


    2. Usually there is a long tense scene of trying to get the lock open as the first obstacle in the gauntlet


    3. ’ She said looking less tense and half closing her eyes


    4. ‘You speak of Joris in the past tense


    5. Kara glanced at Iain sat holding himself stiffly beside her, the knuckles of the hand clutching his bag tense and white


    6. ’ His grip on the bag slightly less tense now


    7. Affirmations are short powerful statements in the present tense


    8. Tense, I wait for his conclusion


    9. are tense and remove stiffness of the neck


    10. It had been a tense day, Thom had given his presentation, and been terribly distracted while he did

    11. This can create a tense atmosphere in the workplace


    12. This year I saw you speaking to each other once and it looked a little tense


    13. My eyes go straight to the piano; Shit! Alastair’s looking tense


    14. within you and word the statement so that it is in present tense


    15. For example, if you were feeling tense about an upcoming visit to your doctor because he might give you a dire prognosis you could write, “I"m afraid that the doctor will tell me that there is nothing he can do to help me


    16. The air became tense


    17. 'Why not?' she retorted, her face tense


    18. Every shopkeeper had a tense expression


    19. 'Vidya?' Ish said as his brows became tense


    20. Most of the girls seemed to be saying they were familiar with most of these moves and there was a lot of easy laughter and teasing but no tense squealing

    21. She’s tense … why?


    22. I could feel her body tense


    23. I caught her and the room was tense for a moment as Suzanne’s face flipped through several expressions


    24. She said it lightly, but she did tense when I asked


    25. She was tense, that was like Tdeshi, “I stayed in the open labs after that, but I wonder if being born in a lab is something I’ll never really get out of my soul


    26. “She deserved, past tense, son


    27. And then the tense used by the police officer sinks home


    28. were noticeably more alert and tense, conversing tersely with each


    29. He seems a trifle tense


    30. He still got tense when her chest touched his arm however

    31. His tense body and quickening breath served no help, nor did his heaving chest at her back


    32. It was obvious, even from her distance, that a tense disagreement was taking place


    33. I'd like to learn how to be intimate with people, how to really be close, to express feelings without feeling nervous or tense


    34. His body was no longer tense and she could tell that whatever it was that he was watching wasn't going to hurt her


    35. Marcue had come running out, waited a few tense seconds, called once and then run down toward the pond at full downhill speed


    36. There was a tense silence


    37. PRESENT TENSE OF THE VERB – TO BE


    38. Fill in the blanks below with one of the 15 irregular past tense verbs in the box


    39. For negative sentences in the simple future tense, we contract with won't, like this:


    40. And in the tense anticipation of what could only be, in Alec's mind, a catastrophe, time had seemed like an eternity

    41. Penelope swore that she had seen the man tense with the mention of the Emperor’s clandestine guard


    42. This would be a tense, tough fight


    43. previous verse, John wrote in the Greek future tense and refers to the Great


    44. The Greek tense is in the future


    45. The present tense is the tense he chooses to use to describe the rest


    46. earth since it is in the same Greek tense


    47. "worship" (also in the Greek present tense) the beast "and receive his mark"


    48. (present tense) the beast


    49. Why is this important? Because "keeping" is in the very same tense!


    50. John's statement of those "who keep (present tense) the commandments" must be











































    1. I take two and lie down again, every muscle in my head, neck and shoulders tensed against the pounding pain in my skull


    2. The team visibly tensed as the sound of splintering wood briefly


    3. ‘You would have tensed and caused even more


    4. Tensed to leap if she should get the chance, she had flinched as Chas’s flailing hand had brushed her leg


    5. Kemberra gritted his teeth and his muscles tensed for a fraction of a second before he composed his face into a very good approximation of a look of bewilderment and asked, “Who’s Teshi?”


    6. When she tensed, he bent close and whispered to her "Remember Emma, hugs don't count


    7. Ammon tensed and prepared to defend himself


    8. ” Her back tensed at my voice, but she turned to face me with her hand clenched around the railing


    9. I was tensed and ready to defend myself, but aside from the snap, the freak was still


    10. I tensed at her assumption, and I was sure Joss could feel it

    11. Eric's body tensed as he moved his hand


    12. Jack sat, tensed


    13. The cold sweat of fear ran down our backs and faces and our stomachs tensed in anticipation of the first bullet that would penetrate and rip its way inside


    14. All of the muscles in her body tensed


    15. Who would be first? He saw a man move in the first row, and he tensed his muscles in anticipation


    16. Beside them the guards tensed


    17. Every muscle in Raven’s body tensed, but he did not pull away


    18. He tensed, expecting a response from the enemy


    19. Despite his eagerness to see her again, he paused, muscles tensed, and took a deep breath in


    20. She tensed for another attack, but he stumbled back, clutching his arm to his chest

    21. Dunn looked away, and Sespian tensed


    22. I just wanted to be here at my favourite place absorbing the wonderful sunshine and allowing the sea to calm my tensed nerves


    23. Em’s hands tensed on her own, and she looked up


    24. His eyes narrowed and he suddenly tensed, terrified that the Circle of Claws had been destroyed by the lightening bolt


    25. She was driving on the Puriscal highway, just outside of town, when the familiar sight of Caroline’s Land Rover approaching from the opposite direction tensed her instantly


    26. Conal’s buttocks tensed and his breath caught in his throat when he saw movement, but it wasn’t the boy that was moving


    27. Surely, she was not going to throw herself in? He tensed, ready to materialize in an instant if need be to save her


    28. There would be consequences, and the rest of the group tensed, before retribution was administered


    29. With that, the Patriarch tensed and a bright shiny aura began to emanate from within him


    30. His body tensed and the Pilgrim seemed to be on the edge as well, the fingers of his hand opening and closing in rapid succession around the knife’s haft in nervous anticipation

    31. He was standing upright, tensed on the back of his horse which lay unmoving, steadfastly following its riders commands like a valued trained warhorse should


    32. Jade tensed and hauled me up


    33. His body tensed and tried to lunge at him, but his brother threw his hands at him and constrained him, shouting in his strange mother tongue, like when they had first met on the Path


    34. Ethan took a closer look: the driver was still clutching his wheel, all tensed up and in shock


    35. The doctor’s eyes suddenly seemed to pop while his face tensed with seeping anger at those words


    36. Bob stopped talking for a few minutes but his heavy eye lids and his tensed lips told me the rest of the story before he even told it


    37. I could tell she was mostly worried about losing her shoes by the way she tensed her mouth and swallowed while staring at her shoe as if it were a dog that had just died


    38. His muscles tensed and his skin became warmer


    39. The only sound to be heard, besides Peter’s hectic breathing, was the song from hundreds of bowstrings being tensed to the outmost


    40. Their faces turned stern and they tensed when they closed their hearts to the feelings from outside

    41. She whispered the Light, the joy and the love, but her hands fitted an arrow on the bow, tensed it, and aimed it at the approaching enemies


    42. She tensed her bow until the bowstring sang and vibrated at the outmost


    43. Her muscles tensed in her arms and shoulders and she bent her head as she took a deep breath again


    44. Wynne tensed in surprise, before cleverly coating his lip with excess soup from


    45. Amelia tensed but didn’t try for the gun again


    46. The deerhound tensed and she rubbed his neck soothingly


    47. Breathing hard now, with sweat gathering on her brow, Maggie watched as the bird’s wings stretched up and its body tensed for flight


    48. The crowd was tensed and watching


    49. I stood up, pacing the room towards Jiva, her body tensed when I approached; ice hard when I was close to her


    50. He visibly tensed when he saw me looking right at him














































    1. Again, Chrissie tenses as her stomach revolts to the sound of his voice, her knuckles white, gripping on the sheet of the bed in which she is lying, she fights for control


    2. Cara sorted through the tenses of Hunter’s vision


    3. My body tenses


    4. Verbs: Spanish verbs have many tenses – more than English


    5. This rule applies to the other tenses as well


    6. [33]This verb is used only in thepresent and imperfect tenses


    7. His tenses and pronouns were those used as a babe


    8. This new phrase isn’t necessary, but something that doesn’t allude to a present tense would help keep the tenses overall consistent


    9. valiéranse; this combination of tenses is unusual


    10. students were expected to fill in blanks with correct verb tenses or

    11. more moods, tenses, and cases than the even younger


    12. There is no one to break the walls of all my tenses


    13. Your body tenses at the sound of the alarm


    14. There are many other less well-defined conditions such as hurrying or doing things quickly by being in-patient tenses the muscle up causing it to be stretched or strained in a state of nervous strain


    15. His voice has just the barest hint of an edge to it, and Amy tenses


    16. Loki’s jaw tenses and he stares at the large man before him


    17. His jaw tenses


    18. When I touch his head, he tenses up, so I’m very gentle


    19. Hebrew has only two tenses, or as they are called “moods”: Perfect (past or completed),


    20. Becky’s tenses knees force her to skip in front while sprinkling flower pedals up the long isle of the cathedral

    21. ) The difference of the tenses in this passage is remarkable


    22. this idiom is used only with the present and imperfect tenses of


    23. He grits his teeth as his face tenses in pain


    24. My body tenses up as I fall, my elbow hitting the ground first


    25. I learnt that there were more than three tenses


    26. He tenses for a moment, then relaxes with a groan


    27. He presses the tip of his cock against her, and she tenses


    28. " With auxiliary verbs, you can write sentences in different tenses, moods, or voices


    29. present tenses, ALL the dead but Christ was “asleep” when Paul wrote this


    30. Moaning like an old toothless dog, with worms and fleabites on its balls, she tenses and releases

    31. nation, past tenses, many times in the Old Testament, but not one dead person was


    32. " “That are asleep” is present tenses, ALL the dead but Christ was “asleep” when Paul wrote this; ALL the dead persons are asleep, nothing is said about souls that are asleep or awake


    33. Israel went into captivity and was restored or resurrected as a nation, past tenses, many times in the Old Testament, but not one dead person was resurrected to eternal life in any of the resurrections or restoring of Israel as a nation; there is nothing said in any of Israel's resurrection or restoring as a nation about any person ever being resurrected or given immortality; not ever David or Abraham was resurrected in any of them


    34. The rambling voice got lost in a maze of tenses as Twoflower ran along the dead tunnels, with the dragon loping along easily behind him


    35. Inside, he had written sentences in Japanese and English—“I feel like eating melon,” “Don’t you intend to buy a piano”—followed by notes on proper phrasing, verbs, and tenses


    36. I reasoned that there could be multiple realities and moral perspectives, tenses and genders all in the same verses, telling myself that if you could do this in painting, then you could do it in song


    37. Gervais isn’t an idiot; his whole body tenses


    38. And so, as you love me, and he loves me, and I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb, I send you simply his 'love' instead


    39. I learned the first two tenses of the verb Etre, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day


    40. “It conjugates all its tenses with to have, seldom with to be

    41. ” And, kissing her mother tenderly, this strange little creature of varying moods and tenses went up to her own room to have it out with herself


    1. He went silent, his whole body tensing in anticipation


    2. He shifted in his seat, tensing,


    3. As quickly as Kallias had been struck by some unseen horror, the Breton felt a harsh blow from the side, her entire body tensing and ultimately locking in place as a result - unable to move


    4. She shuffled forward, tensing to spring if an opportunity arose


    5. Reese glared out at the tents, his jaw tensing


    6. Rhys Green shook the bucket again but the pig ignored it, tensing, ready to run


    7. He was instantly alarmed with the realization of what he was watching: practically imperceptibly, her body was tensing – she was preparing to throw herself, unarmed, against a knife-wielding maniac! She WAS a warrior, but, he couldn’t let her do it, she’d die for sure


    8. He steeled himself for the confrontation, muscles tensing and relaxing in quick succession


    9. James shrugged, his large set of shoulders tensing up his fatigues almost to the point of tearing


    10. She felt his sudden tensing as her shoulder dropped

    11. ” Cloud nodded, his muscles tensing with abhorrence


    12. I could feel every muscle in his body tensing up as he used every drop of his strength to keep me with him


    13. I nod, tensing at the burns on my hands as they heal


    14. ” Bending his head he worked the tensing muscles of his neck


    15. He frowned, his jawline tensing


    16. He walked firmly through the empty halls, jumping up the stairs, swinging on the end of the railing, tensing as the partly opened door approached


    17. Elise noticed the painful tensing of his shoulders every time he negotiated a fallen tree or clump of reeds


    18. ‘’You specialized in covering wars, I believe?’’ Said Lori, tensing up at facing a woman who had publicly acknowledged that she had killed dozens of times


    19. “RADIATION WARNING!” Shouted Mona, tensing up


    20. He inwardly was as stunned as Tseng at what he had seen, but he had never been as emotive, and even now the most that he would allow was the tensing of his jaw and grinding of his teeth He did nod in Tseng's direction, hiding well the tact that his mind was going wild within

    21. With his body tensing up with renewed fear, he fervently hoped that those Japanese fighter pilots would repeat the same mistakes as their previous comrades


    22. stared unblinking, tensing for the leap


    23. Slowing down and tensing up while snapping her head towards where the voice had come, Farah stopped abruptly on recognizing Erik and Dean


    24. Schnottweiper sensed that it was tensing for a forward thrust, a pounce, a kill


    25. ‘’Mister Corbin, could you guide Miss Tensing to the V


    26. singing christian hymns and he could feel his body tensing


    27. Her question was answered by the tensing of the line and the metallic click of several guns readying


    28. Tensing, he pinned her hand in place with his own and struggled to focus


    29. When he hit the point where they were only an arm’s length from each other, he could feel every fiber in his body tensing up


    30. Tensing at the wheel, Amy looks nervously to the dark forest still on their left

    31. Instruct the patient to swallow again while feeling the larynx elevate and attempt to maintain the elevated position by tensing the muscles of their neck and squeezing with their tongue


    32. Start out by tensing up all the muscles in your face


    33. She was still dangerously close to ruining this much-needed moment by sliding out of the saddle again so she used what pressure she could manage by tensing her thigh and calf muscles to keep her balance


    34. ” As he stopped singing, I felt myself tensing again


    35. It was as if a heavy weight bore down on her shoulders and strong fingers pressed at her temples until a throbbing pulse crept down her body, stiffening joints and tensing muscles


    36. Kate felt herself tensing


    37. process of tensing and relaxing their muscles helpful in reducing muscle tension that has


    38. focus on tensing and relaxing only those areas of the body that you sense a build up of tension


    39. Her throat started to close up, her fingers tensing and trembling all at once, dropping her Blackberry with a clang, and dots started to appear around her rooms


    40. Sensing the tension in the air, I could feel Flin tensing up to make a run for it if I needed him to

    41. As his hands came free there was a brief tensing of his abundant musculature and she correspondingly tensed in expectation of a grisly fate at this man’s hands


    42. In a split second of deadly silence the receiver edged back slightly, tensing its spring, and then struck, an arrow loosed at his face


    43. “What?” she asked, tensing


    44. He could tell by the tensing in her muscles that she was taking the


    45. You can feel whether you have separated abdominal muscles by tensing up the muscles, and trying to


    46. Tensing my muscles and forcing my lips to be hard, I resisted the urge to bite him


    47. I pushed at his tensing arms


    48. ” He continued to hold her gaze, unmoving, but the tensing of his jaw made it clear that he was as disturbed by the whole thing as she was


    49. ” He’s talking through gritted teeth; I can see the muscle tensing in his jaw


    50. Then she felt a sudden tensing his lips on hers, her arms were about his neck in a strangling grip






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    Synonyms for "tense"

    tense strain tense up nervous highly-strung agitated excited strained neurotic rigid taut tight stretched

    "tense" definitions

    a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time


    become stretched or tense or taut


    increase the tension on


    become tense, nervous, or uneasy


    cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious


    in or of a state of physical or nervous tension


    pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')


    taut or rigid; stretched tight