sense
noun
any of the faculties, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.
sensed
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past participleof sense.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof sense.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
sensenounany of the faculties, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.
Example Sentences
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He said he had watched it from his home in California and immediately sensed something was wrong.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
He sensed, long before we could prove it, that very high doses given into a vein would behave quite differently from ordinary supplements.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
I froze and wondered if he sensed my fight-or-flight response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Hugging Face co-founder and chief science officer Thomas Wolf sensed that something was off the minute he first looked at his company’s logs of the weekend attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
I sensed Yakov standing behind me, but I couldn’t turn.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
