tense

he was tense with excitement.

a tense naval encounter.

the semantics of tense and aspect.

We were tense with expectancy.

There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.

a tense promotion decider against Wolves.

carefully stretch and then tense your muscles.

the progressive tense (form)

The players were tense at the start of the game.

He read the letter with a tense anxiety.

your muscles tense in readiness for action.

she tried to relax her tense muscles.

her body tensed up .

The atomosphere of tense expectancy sobered everyone.

grammar) of or relating to the aorist tense.

The two countries began to discuss their tense relations.

Tense with expectancy, I waited for my name to be called.

In despite of full fitout,she coulnot persuade herself from tense nerves.

When the bullae are subepidermal, they are tense, and ulceration and scarring may result.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of “Everybody Loves Raymond”,

And we normally use the past tense.

We can change the tense of fall.

Or, that's past tense of " draw" .

This is way too tense for me.

We have to backshift our tenses by one.

I used various verb tenses throughout the paragraph.

If plus present tense verb, will plus future tense verb.

'Passed' is the past tense of the verb 'pass'.

It's the causative verb that takes the tense.

This is particularly true of the regular past tense.