tense
Example Sentences
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As Uganda endured a tense wait after Thursday's polls, Museveni had a commanding lead against Wine, 43, a former singer turned politician, with final results due around 1100 GMT.
From Barron's
“Things are getting tense, and it’s taking a toll on people’s well-being because it’s constant fight or flight,” she said.
But why, she wondered, was this beloved hometown mentioned only in the past tense?
It’s aspirational, as all such stories must be to make them worth telling, but tense; one worries things might go seriously wrong, even as the implied promise of the series is that they might not.
From Los Angeles Times
"I saw him tense up a little bit, but the balls were quite old there, so every rally was a war."
From BBC
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