How to Use sense in a Sentence
- All of my senses were on the alert for danger.
- We had a sense that something wasn't quite right.
- His senses were clear despite his illness.
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There is a sense of mystery at the heart of Take Care of Maya that sticks in the craw a little.
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Chris Vognar,
Rolling Stone,
19 June 2023
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And in one sense, this is so absurd because what in God’s name is the point?
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2024
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Get a sense of the vibes here by checking out last week’s concert.
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Lauren Daley,
BostonGlobe.com,
17 Aug. 2023
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Most of us have never been there, so there’s a sense of mystery about it all too.
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Brendan Menapace,
SPIN,
19 June 2023
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In that sense, my book is a riposte to that kind of right-wing mythmaking.
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Jasmine Liu,
The New Republic,
12 July 2023
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Over the next few months, the industry may have a better sense of which way the wind is blowing.
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Katie Kilkenny,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Feb. 2024
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In that sense, beetles are a microcosm of the tree of life, McKenna says.
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Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Apr. 2024
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There should be a sense that the main part of the garden is for everyone, and meets all of the family's needs.
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Elizabeth Waddington,
Treehugger,
16 June 2023
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But with no guides at the lead, though, there's still a sense of independence.
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Erin Gifford,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Mar. 2024
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That didn’t stop the Spartans’ Paul Alvarez from feeling a sense of pride.
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Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Nov. 2023
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Wilshire had just lost his father three months prior, and each of the writers felt a sense of purpose in the work.
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Tom Roland,
Billboard,
22 Nov. 2023
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So spare us any new fake sense of urgency on the border.
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Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
6 Oct. 2023
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My margins weren’t clear after my last surgery so this is what makes most sense.
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Vanessa Etienne,
Peoplemag,
18 Dec. 2023
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For not being Berkeley, Calif., where the streets made perfect sense and cars stayed put.
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Yael Goldstein-Love,
New York Times,
9 Sep. 2023
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This makes so much sense, the way nothing has ever made sense before.
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Town & Country,
21 July 2023
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That clarification makes a lot more sense on the heels of Diesel's new claim.
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
12 May 2023
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The story ends with a sense of hope as the father sends Pari's younger sister to school to become a pilot.
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Akruti Babaria,
Parents,
5 Mar. 2024
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Now, a sense of panic is taking hold in the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.
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Jonathan Vigliotti,
CBS News,
4 Jan. 2024
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As fiction about the pandemic keeps trickling in, even the lighter books have a sense of gloom and paranoia.
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Lisa Levy,
Washington Post,
17 Aug. 2023
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Tragedy rips the grieving out of the storyline of their own life, denies them any sense of what the past meant or the future will hold.
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Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2023
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The story of America is, in a very real sense, the story of its rivers and the struggle to control them.
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John Buntin,
wsj.com,
15 May 2023
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The area has inner doors that divide the aircraft’s outer doors from the cabin, so the sense of calm remains.
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Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
5 Dec. 2023
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With a sheer black bodice, her Dior gown brought Lawrence’s pinpoint sense of elegance back to the limelight.
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Henry Chandonnet,
Peoplemag,
14 June 2023
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But this sense of anguish may cause Hiroto to lose his way.
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Diego Ramos Bechara,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2024
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In Oregon and around the U.S., there was a grim sense that our systems were insufficient to cope with the threat of fentanyl.
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E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2024
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The burlesque star hopes that viewers will leave the show—which is on until spring 2024—with a sense of joy and fantasy.
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Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2023
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Consider what makes the most sense and head in that direction.
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Eugenia Last,
The Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2024
- A motion detector can sense movement.
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The latest feature on air conditioners is a big new plug to help prevent fires. The plug shuts down power when it senses that the air conditioner cord is damaged.
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Consumer Reports,
July 2005
- She immediately sensed my dislike.
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The rhetoric was heated, but Guo seemed to sense that the scene wasn’t much to look at.
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Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2022
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Others are there to be heard, to be sensed, to be felt.
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Rory Smith,
New York Times,
10 May 2023
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Donovyn Hunter, the star senior guard of the No. 2 Panthers, could sense it too.
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Shane Hoffmann,
oregonlive,
10 Mar. 2023
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Hafley sensed in the locker room that his players were down.
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Trevor Hass,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 Sep. 2023
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Laurie seems to sense that Michael is somewhere in the house and hides in a kitchen closet.
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Shannon Carlin,
Time,
14 Oct. 2022
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These ladies can sense carbon dioxide and skin odor and use it to track down a meal (i.e. you).
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Loren Savini,
Allure,
7 Aug. 2023
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But the driver sensed something wrong and brought him to the gendarmerie police.
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Nancy Ing,
NBC News,
14 Dec. 2023
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Across the kitchen, his mother turned to us, somehow able to sense the misaligned cut.
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Kyle Buchanan,
New York Times,
26 Nov. 2023
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But his friend, Joel Shoemake, could also sense there was more to it.
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Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Nov. 2022
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From these, the whales might be able to sense her heartbeat quickening.
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Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2024
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Still, in the end the veteran sensed something electric.
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Peggy Noonan,
WSJ,
9 Mar. 2023
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But the Pacers sense that something has changed since their win over the Bulls right before All-Star break.
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Dustin Dopirak,
The Indianapolis Star,
1 Mar. 2023
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Laura, tell us about that closet door that made noooooo sense?
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Laura Johnston,
cleveland,
20 Dec. 2022
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The crabs couldn’t actually get at them, but the spat could sense their presence.
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Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com,
al,
2 June 2023
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Around this time, Vitto started to sense that he was being watched.
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Jeff Maysh,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct. 2022
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The second type is parents who sense that something is wrong with their child but don’t know what to do or who to turn to for help.
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Jillian Peterson,
CNN,
28 Mar. 2023
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The somatosensory cortex enables the brain to sense what the body touches.
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Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
19 Sep. 2023
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Is the chatbot going to be able to sense that, feel that, accommodate that?
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Quartz Staff,
Quartz,
26 May 2023
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Even other species, like tobacco, can sense and react to the alarm.
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Sofia Quaglia,
Discover Magazine,
28 Apr. 2023
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The camera can sense heat coming towards it and then turns on a series of lights to try and alert the driver to their error.
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Dallas News,
14 Oct. 2022
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There’s a large walk-in pantry with motion sensing lights and a grocery door that is accessible from the garage to the pantry.
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Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2024
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The interaction was pregnant with meaning that the boy could sense but not quite grasp.
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Daniel Oppenheimer,
Washington Post,
9 Nov. 2022
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Called a Triton, it can be programmed to do this when its systems sense danger.
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Will Knight,
WIRED,
25 July 2023
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Cook sensed her discomfort and sent the other players home.
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Andy Cush,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2024
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Human fingers don't just sense what a surface feels like.
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Simon Makin,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2023
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And the ability to sense changes in seafloor pressure may open the door to directly detecting tsunamis too.
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Carolyn Wilke,
Discover Magazine,
28 Nov. 2022
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Locals – like squirrels before a storm – sensed it and were nervous.
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Rick Steves,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2023
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