INTENSE in a Sentence

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To Ethan, still in the rosy haze of his hour with Mattie, the sight came with the intense precision of the last dream before waking.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTENSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intense
 a.  extreme; acute; in an extreme degree
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  To Ethan, still in the rosy haze of his hour with Mattie, the sight came with the intense precision of the last dream before waking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Scarlett hesitated and saw one of the convicts raise a weary head and give Johnnie a stare of intense hatred before he looked at the ground again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  It won't occur to them that women of--their profession are capable of intense loyalty or patriotism.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Even on her way up the stairs, she had not thought of preparing a pretext for her visit, but she now felt an intense longing to dispel the cloud of misunderstanding that hung between them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
5  She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  After that she continued to sit at the table, sorting her papers and writing, till the intense silence of the house reminded her of the lateness of the hour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7  She was in a silver sheath, the calyx of a lily, her piled hair like black glass; she had the fragility and costliness of a Viennese goblet; and her eyes were intense.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  One early evening she startled them by screaming, in an intense abdominal pain, and within half an hour she was in a delirium.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  The priest was a thin, swart, intense young man with a bang.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
11  "I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
12  An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
13  It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
14  The intense heat of the fire is prevented from communicating itself to the deck, by means of a shallow reservoir extending under the entire inclosed surface of the works.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
15  We were clear from the carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
16  A dark, intense, semi-smiling stare, as if the sprig of white heather was not charity but compulsory.
17  An intense debate is going on within the Israeli government.
18  The incident triggered an intense debate on levels of airport security and the economics of running both airports and airlines.
19  The Israeli and Palestinian girls engage in intense discussions and heated arguments.
20  At other times she seemed possessed of a wild animation, her eyes alight, her expression vigorous, an intense glow in her soul.
21  Tom found himself tormented with a desire to drink; the desire grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope of a chance to display himself in his red sash kept him from withdrawing from the order.
22  The one who called himself Nathaniel was swarthy and handsome with dark, intense eyes and a spill of brunet hair over a pair of broad shoulders.
23  As interstellar dust and debris crashes into the earth's upper atmosphere, it burns up in an intense streak of light across the night sky.
24  People who have not been active for several months should not start their jogging program with a long or intense run.
25  As with almost any topic, differences are apparent, given the intense state of factional rivalry between reformists and hardliners.
26  Nor would most hovering drones stand a chance in the intense storms and blizzards that helicopters sometimes have to fly into.
27  The Syrian government, which is under intense scrutiny by Western nations and even the Arab league for human rights atrocities, was quick to clarify that it had no intention of using its massive stockpile of chemical weapons on civilians.
28  His air of calm superiority annoyed her intensely.
29  His strongest criticism is reserved for his father, whom he disliked intensely.
30  The novel is an intensely lyrical stream-of-consciousness about an Indian woman who leaves her family home to be married.