Synonym: rigid, strained, taut, tight. Antonym: flabby. Similar words: intense, sense, dense, incense, offense, license, expense, defense. Meaning: [tens] 
n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. v. 1. become stretched or tense or taught 2. increase the tension on 3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy 4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. adj. 1. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension 2. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') 3. taut or rigid; stretched tight.
n. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. v. 1. become stretched or tense or taught 2. increase the tension on 3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy 4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. adj. 1. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension 2. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') 3. taut or rigid; stretched tight. 
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(61) I haven't heard from him lately. Lately is usually used with a perfect tense of the verb.
(62) She droned on for hours about the uses of the present tense.
(63) She coveted his job so openly that conversations between them were tense.
(64) Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
(65) 'I am' is the first person singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'.
(66) He was sitting bolt upright on his chair, looking very tense.
(66) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
(67) In the sentence "I stroked the cat", "stroked" is in the past tense.
(68) I spent a tense few weeks waiting for the results of the tests.
(69) There were some tense moments in the second half of the game.
(70) When we are tired, tense, depressed or unwell, we feel pain much more.
(71) This attack will exacerbate the already tense relations between the two communities.
(72) When we are under stress our bodies tend to tense up.
(73) It is difficult to be natural when one is tense.
(74) You can rely on him to crack a joke when things get tense in the office.
(75) I could feel myself tense up as he touched my neck.
(76) Dart, who had at first been very tense(sentencedict.com), at last relaxed.
(77) 'I have eaten' is the present perfect tense of the verb 'to eat', 'I had eaten' is the past perfect and 'I will have eaten' is the future perfect.
(78) His voice had lost its resonance; it was tense and strained.
(79) She was drilling the class in the forms of the past tense.
(80) Conditions are still very tense and the fighting could escalate at any time.
(81) In English the past tense of a verb is usually formed by adding 'ed'.
(82) singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'.
(83) Williams's play is a tense contemporary three-hander about two murderers and a bank-robber.
(84) The atmosphere in the meeting was getting more and more tense.
(85) I cannot play the piano like I used to—my fingers have gone tense from lack of practice.
(86) The gentlest of her caresses would contort his already tense body.
(87) It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.
(88) Although the situation was tense, her voice was calm and very assured.
(89) She was very tense as she waited for the interview.
(90) Even though her parents have long since died, she still talks about them in the present tense.
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