But when the match became increasingly tense, the youngster was admirable in his composure.

They played each other on five increasingly tense occasions.

The preschool volunteers became increasingly tense and irritable.

Videos of marches, rallies, hastily assembled barricades and increasingly tense clashes are flooding our news feeds every single day.

With the clock ticking at the front, the atmosphere gets increasingly tense as each of the personalities begin to clash.

No goals, no opportunities and no real excitement were the hallmarks of a desperately dull opening to this tense encounter.

The tense encounter ended amicably.

Forget about trying to tidy up these tense encounters.

The meeting was fraught with tense encounters.

His calming presence often helped referees during difficult and tense encounters.

But it bubbles - things come to the surface that are definitely from the experience of growing up in a tense environment.

It's such a tense environment.

The majority of the war scenes were written to take place inside the tunnels so a tense environment could be achieved while facilitating the film's tight budget.

After a tense exchange, the pair refused to look at each other.

But the legendary songwriters have developed a mutual respect after years of tense exchanges.

Proponents and opponents of the bill faced off in a series of tense exchanges, with strong accusations being made against the people and groups involved in the bill's introduction.

It was a taste of the tense relationship to follow.

You can see how life looks through other people's eyes and find a way to turn a tense relationship into a friendlier one.

The audience will also see the sometimes tense relationship between the band and the recording engineer and producer, who were in a glassfronted control room, looking into the studio.

A new time of mutual respect within a family can turn a tense relationship into a happier one.

At work, giving someone the benefit of the doubt may be hard but it transforms a tense relationship.

A tense scene involving the search for the missing evidence provides a rare moment of excitement.

During one rehearsal, while directing a particularly tense scene, a senior actor's false teeth suddenly flew across the stage.

Prepare for a tense scene at the gallows.

In tense scenes, the crowds forced steel security barriers closer to the door while police officers on horseback fought to hold them back.

Be prepared for some seriously tense scenes.

Special particle words function in lieu of prefixes and suffixes to mark verb tense.

In most dialects, each verb tense has potentially six forms, varying for first, second, or third person and for singular or plural number.

Each morpheme here contributes to the meaning of the verb tense or the person who has performed the verb.

Because these suffixes vary greatly with the particular verb tense/aspect/mood, they are normally not considered to be pronouns and are discussed elsewhere in this article under verb conjugation.

There are not long conjugations of verb tenses.