"tense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tense adjetivo

tense + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 66
tense moment • tense situation • tense silence • tense relationship • tense relation • tense atmosphere • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(8) meeting, session
Kolokacji: 2
(10) excitement, calm, emotion
Kolokacji: 3
(11) shoulder, border
Kolokacji: 2
(12) pause, wait, breathing, breath
Kolokacji: 4
1. tense pause = pauza czasu tense pause
2. tense wait = oczekiwanie czasu tense wait
3. tense breath = oddech czasu tense breath
4. tense breathing = czas oddychanie tense breathing
  • Except for their tense breathing, it was as if each had withdrawn inside his own shell, ignoring the other.
  • The fade of those passing footsteps had allowed him to hear a closer sound - a tense, slow breathing that seemed no more than inches from his elbow.
  • He had heard the bumping and the thumping and the tense breathing even as he picked occasional china from his person.
  • The faint haze of that poisonous vapor had already been sucked unconsciously into Frick's nose and mouth by his tense breathing.
  • There was just tense breathing and the faint rumble of the building underneath it.
  • And so they waited, watching the void in a silence broken only by tense breathing and the whispered sigh of settling dust.
  • In the lifeless night silence of Rakatan, Uhura could hear the tense breathing of the man beside her.
  • The apartment was quiet, except for the smooth rustle of Esmeralda's negligee, and their tense and excited breathing.
  • Only the sound of tense breathing, and the distant cough of a wild dog filled the still air of the village.
  • The faint rumble of these force fields was the only sound, except for his tense breathing.
verbo + tense
Kolokacji: 6
grow tense • look tense • feel tense • become tense • sound tense • ...
adverbio + tense
Kolokacji: 5
pretty tense • most tense • racially tense • increasingly tense • extremely tense
tense + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
tense with • tense in • tense for • tense at

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