INTENSIVE in a Sentence
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264 example sentences for INTENSIVE, such as:
1. I'll make an intensive study of a subject.
2. She needed intensive care for three weeks.
3. An intensive search failed to reveal any clues.
4. Ahead of us lay ten days of intensive training.
5. The man is in the hospital's intensive care unit.
2. She needed intensive care for three weeks.
3. An intensive search failed to reveal any clues.
4. Ahead of us lay ten days of intensive training.
5. The man is in the hospital's intensive care unit.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of INTENSIVE
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intensive
n. a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
a. tending to give force or emphasis
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.
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.
3 It won't occur to them that women of--their profession are capable of intense loyalty or patriotism.
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.
5 She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit.
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.
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.
8 One early evening she startled them by screaming, in an intense abdominal pain, and within half an hour she was in a delirium.
9 The priest was a thin, swart, intense young man with a bang.
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.
11 "I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
12 An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
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.
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.
15 We were clear from the carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense.
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
2 Ahead of us lay ten days of intensive training.
3 The man is in the hospital's intensive care unit.
4 He was taken in a coma to the intensive care unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
5 Doctors put her on a respirator and wheeled her downstairs to the intensive care unit.
6 Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit.
7 The south-west of the country suffered an intensive bombing campaign.
8 She needed intensive care for three weeks.
9 The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
10 She spent the night in intensive care after the operation.
11 The conditions were unfavourable for intensive agricultural production.
12 An intensive search failed to reveal any clues.
13 I'll make an intensive study of a subject.
14 Humber's postgraduate programs are offered in an accelerated, intensive format, ordinarily two semesters long.
15 This dossier is a result of intensive work over eight weeks that has drawn on many sources.