Example Sentences

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“Hopefully, the energy — or whatever people want to say, the intenseness that I have — may work here,” Collins said.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2011

A sort of fresh intenseness pervaded the atmosphere as she opened the mouth of the bag and inserted her arm.

From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne

Faith's eye was upon the sprig of sea-weed while these verses were repeating,—then she looked up at the speaker with an intenseness in which oddly mingled some strong feeling of sorrow or regret.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

I hardly dared to breathe from the very intenseness of my anxiety, and it was not till I saw the British flag floating from the citadel, that I could respire freely.

From Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by Taylor, William

It depends on the exclusiveness and intenseness of devotion which spouses are held to owe each other.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham