What is a sentence using the word sense

Examples of how to use the word “sense” in a sentence. How to connect “sense” with other words to make correct English sentences.

sense (n): an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel

Use “sense” in a sentence

Smell is one of the five senses.
This question doesn’t make sense.
He has no sense of humor.
You should rewrite this sentence, It does not make sense.
He has no sense of shame.
The question simply doesn’t make sense.
Don’t lose your sense of humor.
Dogs have a keen sense of smell.
This sentence doesn’t make sense.
This message doesn’t make sense to me.

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with God in a true sense of this term


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sense to claim you are in relationship with God and still


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influence this world? Games are addicting because they give you a sense of accomplishment


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«Hey, we saved the maps,» Jorma said, «not that they made any sense to either one of us


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Time, in the physical sense, doesn’t actually exist


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a sense of proportion to the importance of certain matters in life


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awaken a whole new sense of being present and living life in the moment, as it is happening


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their sense of awe


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When you lose that sense, the


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our true sense of worship

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intuitive decision in the moment of how you should handle that sixth sense


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distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to


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“You have to be able to sense where your body is and when you’re unstable


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Even if you’ve been an avid golfer, a fiend for tennis, loved playing hockey or zooming downhill on skis, you can’t assume you’ve retained your sense of balance


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sense of contentment within us in a


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Can we do anything to protect ourselves and bring our sense of balance up to par? Happily, the answer is yes


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They mask the ability to sense accurately where the pressure is on the foot


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“Oh really? Compton?” That makes sense


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“You’ll find everything you need is there for the numbers to make sense,” Henry continued, when he really should have just stayed quiet


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On the other hand, pleasurable thoughts and feelings can lead to muscle relaxation and a sense of well being

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She felt Tdeshi’s hormones prompting her to blow off comfortable old Kulai and run off on an adventure with a dashing manly man, but Ava’s sense of duty was going to force Herndon to pay for this junket with his fast boat


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Scar peered intently at the gibberish on the monitor, trying to make sense of the words and numbers appearing and disappearing in rapid procession


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In a sense she was a native, this body was born here of native parents back when Alan was the only person of Earth ancestry walking here


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It was his dream that he would marry and have children … and Dan is a man to make his dreams reality … I think he had some crackbrained idea that he could have the wife and family along with my friendship as well … I daresay he thought I would come to terms with Joanna … after all, she was a friend of mine … it made some sort of sense


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If that makes any sense


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Kulai was so sophisticated, a well practiced amorist from an ancient and decadent culture, but in a sense more tease than Tdeshi’s hormones wanted her to live with


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Not all the lines have to make sense


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Cockroaches have a well developed sense of smell


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There was a sense of royalty about the room


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Though the last one is the final one, it makes sense to destroy the previous ones

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She had also given Nancy the spy name of Seventy-Seven, and the identity and sense of purpose that went along with it


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If the welcome for project staff and accompanying officials is anything to go by, there is already a deep sense of appreciation


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‘What?’ I asked, trying to make sense of what he’s said


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They had way more money than sense and a bunch of crazy notions, but other than that, they were just big guys who liked to play with motors


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Through the practice of Meditation you will achieve a greater sense of purpose and strength of will


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This Niyama encourages us to let go of our false sense of control and to connect to the Divine or that which gives us the sense of wholeness and sacredness


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By now Dan had regained his sense of righteous propriety


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they lost their sense of time and place and became one writhing creature on that


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“I don’t mean Heaven and Hell, not in the biblical sense


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Cat tried to make sense of his words

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Independence tussles with sense as I watch; sense wins


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She looked beyond Ava to the surf while she thought of how little sense that statement made


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Once they did, their creed could finally make some real sense


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I like Molly … she’s got a wicked sense of humour


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She could feel the need, could sense the exquisite pain of that once


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What sense it made to spread their arms like birds and cup their hands was beyond her


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I sit in the car for nearly ten minutes muttering imprecations about that bloody man before my sense of humour gets the better of me and, realising just how stupid this whole thing is, burst out laughing


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Whilst not always the sharpest knife in the box, Stu’s libidinous sense of what


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There was certainly no question that he knew a lot about Gino’s criminal past, way too much, so in that sense the game was up


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‘Sometimes – pretty awful most of them, though you do get the odd one who has a bit of sense about her

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I sense Stephen stiffen as he sees them, though he is obviously determined not to let his fear of the animals show


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In the past year they had become ‘prosperous’ in a virtual sense, and she still thought they had a lot more crystal than Ava admitted to


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save for that one weird sense of longing that seemed to flow from his soul


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I could sense that there was a story corning, so I kept quiet


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She had a sense that it would be safer not to reveal how much she knew


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Taking a deep breath, she got up from the couch as silently as she could, tip-toed to the front door, slowly opened it with a sense of relief when it didn’t squeak, and then hurried outside and up the street


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No doubt he will land when no one is looking also, so there is no sense staying up staring at him


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wanted something, but had no means to express such things in any sense other than


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Sense at last, I thought


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Things weren’t adding up and I couldn’t make any sense of it, but whatever the explanation, I just couldn’t watch her cry

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Even the little black box that was nested against her belly seemed to hum with its own sense of vigor again


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She bleeds slowly, darkening his vision amid a deep sense of


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The clearance to view the data for that was a much bigger boon than non-technicians knew, for it allowed access to the diagnostic recording system and once one knew how to use the diagnostic recording system it was relatively simple to get access to every data stream in the crew, every sense, every output, even hormone levels


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Removing the hessian sack was like shucking-off a mental straight-jacket Along with a sense of humiliation I could also feel a sense of anger rising in my blood


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As it happens, it is a Granny & Grandpa afternoon and, as Fred is a keen G&G attendee and frequently spends the afternoon crawling round the floor with the children, it makes sense to include the kids in the festivities


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Nothing made sense, as if I was waking from the equivalent of a long and comatose illness and had no idea what year, what decade this might be


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The bucket, for instance, felt clean and dry, but bathed in the aromas of moulded plastic and disinfectant I could sense a mixture of bleach and the faint tang of stale urine


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My already heightened sense of smell recoiled from the metallic odour of fresh blood


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When he remembered how little inertial negation that bucket had, it all suddenly made sense


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He had always been a casual follower of the faith until now, but this made so little sense

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That makes some sort of sense to me in my dazed state


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I hungered, not for the bread and jam on the tray, but for a sense of self worth


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In the darkness I still drifted between states of melancholia and determination, but I also found a new emotion brewing: that of puppy-dog gratefulness mixed with a strange sense of excited anticipation


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At the same time I felt a deep sense of relief


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‘Ah – do I sense that you have been on the receiving end of the local jungle drums?’ I asked; he looks sheepish for a second


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Judaic revelation is incomplete and Islam is a false religion in the sense that we are misguided in our separatism


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Through it all, through the jokes and the bonhomie, all boys together in the relief trench, I couldn’t shake a nagging sense of indignation


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How could they behave like this? How could they treat me like this after all these weeks? But mixed in with the sense of resentment I was also very conscious of the threat


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The feeling in my fingers drifted away, giving me a vague sense of having been swallowed by a monstrous, mechanical snake


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What follows next is dead silence, but then Sabrina speaks again, «Well, are you excited about the ceremony?» I cringe as I sense confusion coming from Apollo as he responds, «What ceremony?»

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‘I was so busy in December I hadn’t noticed my period didn’t happen and I’d been lulled into a sense of security by the fact that I had a bit of a period in November … though it wasn’t anywhere near normal


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The woman’s speech is mostly incoherent, but I can still get a sense of what is troubling her


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In a sense, the tech who had done this had just zeroed his call-backs and run away


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The sense of disappointment, of failure, was crushing in the darkness


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Thinking back to a lot of what his father told him, and it all made sense


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On occasions I still smouldered with that inner anger, but I came to see through Menachem’s observations that we all, captives and guards, felt a similar sense of outrage and impotent fury


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In that sense, it’s good to be here where we live on instead of ending so completely that we never even know it


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He was convinced she loved him, in some sense at least, but in almost everything, she was a native and he was a foreigner


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Through it all, through each and every one of these long drawn out days, I let a sense of self-pity wash through me


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I tried to block out this sense of pointless waste by focussing on the shapes and forms of my new friends

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I wanted to grab hold of Beniamin and shake some sort of sense back into him


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That made so little sense because intelligence said that the Al-Harron was also advertised as a seedship


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She could feel the need, could sense the exquisite pain of that once in a lifetime craving, a passion that inflamed her entire being beyond anything that she had known in all these years of absolute and necessary thirst


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Any sense of time has long left, leaving him disorientated


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When we apply this to our own lives, it makes sense now as to why we undergo pain and torment


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In a sense, God foreknew that He would suffer before He even started to create


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In another sense, God also foreknew that He might not have to suffer


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Whilst not always the sharpest knife in the box, Stu’s libidinous sense of what was possible confirmed the Countess’s assessment of the situation


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Lyla could sense his


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She passed her hands over his chin, natives either grew full length beards or had their facial hair genetically removed, so this roughness was something she seldom sensed and after the fifty Earth years since he’d left, it moved her in unexpected ways


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He had sensed they were much more intelligent than a horse, more intelligent than a feral dog


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She sensed something other


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The low menace in his voice reminded me of my father on report night, and for the first time in my life I sensed the difference between love and hate


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I sensed fear and bewilderment, mine included


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We sensed the nervous agitation of the guards, an anxiety verging on panic


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She sensed something other here but not evil, not in its own right, describing it to herself as rather a feral air, as though the man were wild and untamed as yet


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The twins sensed that they were going ‘home’ and they became very excited, running about and growling


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Since they were the same age, Nuran and Alan hit it off well enough that night in the inn that Luray wanted to suggest to Lmore that Nuran wouldn’t be needing a guide to Zhlindu, but she also sensed that Nuran and Lmore already had a little history that Lmore wanted to continue


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They sensed the people in the large Hall and attacked it with a vengeance

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He sensed him roaming about looking for information


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In Felix I sensed the businessman, I could tell he was in the habit of entering his problems in his mental search engine and waiting for a list of alternatives to come up but this time he didn’t stand a chance because the wide blue was smiling as wide and as blue as only the wide blue can smile and the balmy air was becalming his twiddling and so he was forced to relax a little more, close his eyes and lay back


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Up to then, I suppose it had been nothing more than banter but I sensed it was beginning to border on something a little more diabolical and that was when the mood changed with some Athens jazz


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I hoped he sensed my unease


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Thom sensed the meeting was over, he tapped the signed req back into his phone and minimized it, then got up to go


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Annie sensed that she was about to be initiated into a new world of family revelations and scandals


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Lucy had never bought into the concept that art or music could change lives or move mountains, but with every hook and drum beat, with every lilting nuance of the boy’s soft voice, she sensed a shift in the world and she knew instinctively that she had to download the song immediately


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Lana told me that she sensed there was some kind of


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say, in effect: «What you just said was meaningless!» Such is only sensed as


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«It wasn’t until the year you call 114 that our cerebral mechanics first sensed a mortal dimension

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Annie sensed that she was about to be initiated into a new world


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voice, she sensed a shift in the world and she knew instinctively


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He had apparently sensed the mood, and seemed happy enough to


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He had sensed a certain


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He couldn’t let him know he had sensed that he knew Tdeshi


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Johnson sensed Roman was uneasy with the amount of information known


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Still Roman sensed he had walked into a world meant solely for


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He was beginning to scare her, and he must have sensed it, for he turned and walked off into the first small room at the front of the house


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Then almost as if the crowd sensed her wish, a path opened and the seven of them where clearly visible to her, in a nook of their own, the six stood about Sara in her wheel chair, each girl, securely tucked under a young man’s arm of Emma’s approval


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He never sensed the other being

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He sensed the man’s power as clearly as his stench


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She shook him, gently, but with enough force that he sensed urgency


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his back and sensed a lifting of the gloom


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He sensed the presence and knew the speaker, it was the Gray Mage Coba, a refugee of the Order and, next to Brice, he was the highest ranked mage in Shattered Rock


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Brice sensed the mages rousing behind him and could hear whispers running through the crowd of students


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But he sensed that was about to change


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Galimoto sensed the presence of his master, felt him emanating fear, far away at the outskirts of the city


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He must have sensed her reply was grim, for the darkness tightened around him


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But he would probably do so, even without her endorsement, for he sensed a kindred spirit in the man


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As he pondered his options, he sensed the branches closing in on him once more

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Immediately he sensed the Tree, and the pure evil within


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He could see her jaw was injured, and though he couldn’t have known about her other injury, he must have sensed it was improper to strike a girl’s chest


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Nerissa sensed that there was little love between them


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Ome hesitated, he sensed something in the figure


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The moment he sensed their presence, Ollius communicated telepathically with them


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Ollius sensed confusion, shock, and a great deal of fear among the group


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Ostedes was preparing to move on, to further his power, further the chaos, when suddenly he sensed new arrivals to the Hangar – both of their minds oh so familiar


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He sensed a failure of catastrophic proportions


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What was most puzzling was that he only sensed it, but couldn’t see it


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The army of races sensed the potential failure as well

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‘Dona’Cora,’ Anon thought, a grin spreading across his face as he sensed her familiar presence


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She wasn’t interested and they naturally sensed that enough to stay away from her


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But Nerissa sensed he might become enticed by the story of her travels


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Within the cave, I sensed a The Maiden’s Odyssey


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Although we had broken up she told me that she felt compelled to come and see me to see if I was OK as she sensed I was in trouble


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He sensed that the two women liked each other; or so it seemed on the surface


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My uncles must have sensed that it was full of sweet-fleshed fish


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She really thought so, even if she hadn’t sensed the rising


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sensed that it involved a woman


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She couldn’t reach it, but sensed it wasn’t far back in her memory

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Today was different, though; he sensed that Ashpenaz needed a sympathetic ear


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They had either heard the public announcement from the city square or somehow sensed that something big was about to happen there that day, and they started gathering to watch


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Zarko smiled as he sensed her urgency


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meet his eye, she sensed


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He sensed the news had to be for him so he got up and quickly made his way down the stairs, his heart beating in his chest


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First they thought it was a reaction to Rachel’s plea for forgiveness, but then they sensed something deeper, something more complex


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Azubah sensed the turmoil in her niece as she waited for the explanation


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A moment later, the leader sensed the attack and reared up on its hind legs snarling frantically


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Jodie was enjoying seeing in the near-blackness when she sensed the outline of two tunnel entrances some distance before them


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The Leader somehow sensed the officer was thinking about him, as out of the blue, the Leader fixed him with a slightly manic, slightly threatening grin

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Even Danny had not sensed its presence


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It was a rare kind of empathy that he sensed


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I couldn’t bring myself to answer out loud, but I think she sensed my movement


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Becky must have sensed it because she moved close and slipped her arm around my waist, snuggling against my shoulder


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He sensed the connection to his master growing dim


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Zardino must have sensed the the apprehension from Torbin’s expression


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Jannson said a few words about his monitoring equipment, but she certainly sensed a tension between them


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He apparently sensed the end of the journey


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Perhaps people sensed there was a threat to their existence even without the evidence; they were reassessing their lives, looking to shore up what really mattered, asking the bigger questions


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Torbin mused that it was some kind of sulking objection at being usurped, though more likely it sensed its primary purpose in sending him to the black hole was no longer valid

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“You sensed a presence there?”


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This time Torbin sensed the purpose was far more sinister


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I»m sure He sensed what we all needed


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The device knew his mind better than any Elusiver with their invasive probing; it sensed what he wanted


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Roidon seemed happy to be leaving; despite Raiya’s distress he must have sensed that there was hope


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Even in his condition he sensed there was something between her and Torbin, except the thing in question was more in Torbin’s mind


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and now, here he was on the phone and she sensed his merriment as soon as she picked up the receiver


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Rosemary sensed in her bones the solid stone walls, steeped in family history, surrounding her, almost enfolding her


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And he sensed Rosemary didn’t want to go either


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He sensed a moment of resistance in her and then it broke and he was certain

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on, emotionally enlightened by everything he sensed in the


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Frank sensed the challenge in her tone


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Torin had not sensed such strength in Adem during any of their lessons


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I’ll never understand how Ozzie sensed that he had to protect Nathaniel from those living room perils on that awful day


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I think now that as Autumn sensed her own death approaching, she returned deliberately to a more primal place


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It was similar to the theme of falling through fire that he sensed in Arawn through the kigare, endless pain, endless suffering


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He was surprised himself when he realised it had melted away at her words and what he sensed in her


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Grant heard this, he sensed more than ever that General Lee was


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He asked Arawn through the kigare if he sensed any evil in these men


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Jean focused on his face for a brief moment; her expression mirrored the ache in her heart he sensed through the kigare

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We are also not here to be preoccupied with indiscriminate or unregulated gratification of the senses, or to imitate the behaviour of others whose lives are so misdirected


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This is due to the fact that the focus of attention is away from the things of the senses, no matter how beautiful


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The withdrawing of the mind-consciousness from the periphery of the body, so that the avenues of outer perception and contact (the five senses) are stilled, and the consciousness is no longer outgoing


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Prathayara or Withdrawal of the Senses


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Senses are superior to your body


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Mind is superior to the senses and intellect is superior to mind


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I stand there like a lunatic for slightly longer than is polite … just staring at her and trying to take this in, then, come to my senses suddenly


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every inch covered her senses reeled with ever deeper revelation


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«It sounds like you are now much more concerned about that fact that my sister has come to her senses about you than you are about the fact that the shuttlecraft is in orbit


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The steam rising from the freshly brewed tea assaulted my senses making me salivate

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I try to respond accordingly but he senses my embarrassment at once:


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Suddenly, I’m distracted by a voice, wake up!» Immediately, the sensation of Apollo standing over me inundates my senses


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Hints of perfumed unguents applied so thoughtlessly in the dawn light spoke in foreign tongues to insect senses


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It is an orgy of the senses


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With every inch covered her senses reeled with ever deeper revelation


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«They have very different senses


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Allowing the other pedestrians to pass, she paused, one hand on the post of the crossing for balance, and bent over fiddling with her shoe, her senses firing off warnings … she could smell danger


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Probably the greatest travesty of our age is the use of manipulation during worship to rile up the emotions and senses during the music time


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He approached more quietly after that, and kept his senses alert for something less technical than a human


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Slowly, my senses steadying, I open my eyes and try to calm my breathing … the familiar room is comforting

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A mighty roar from Rah brought her back to her senses


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I closed my eyes and tried to look forward to this unexpected visit to the city of cities but just as Prometheus opened up with some hot tips on the nightspots of Sophia, I was brought to my senses by a sensuous vibration from deep within my trouser pocket


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A welcome pressure on my arm brought me to my senses, but my guilt began to smoulder


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But it brought me to my senses, seething with frustration and anger, ‘He’s a total bloody menace


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A shivering fit brings him to his senses soon enough though and, with a filthy look in my direction, he goes off into a corner of the room to divest himself of his soaking clothes while I do the same by the fire


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The rendering of my wife’s body, the dinner, the candlelight, the music, the smells of the food, her perfume and her body itself was all fine, at least as good as my mortal senses could ever perceive


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The princess was the first to come to her senses


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Earlier, whilst waiting for the Delfini, I’d confessed I was an old-fashioned dreamy coward who had almost flown away only a few hours earlier but for the last minute flash of awareness that brought me to my senses


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At those times when the vision of the fish is restricted, its other senses will kick in


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He had almost lost total control of his senses before Naria stepped in and brought him back from the brink of madness

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The feel of her smooth skin on his body heightened all his senses


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He calmed himself and focused all his senses; he would have to be very cautious


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“It was pretty intense, but what scenes were projected on my senses during that time really isn’t important if we don’t know where it came from


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She told him not to worry; she would council with her Eloi senses before approaching them


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They were about thirty feet from Warrior Hold when Rayne’s senses suddenly tensed…


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What I want to do here is expand both senses and


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This keda cart was rendered very well to all his senses and so was the girl sitting on the front of it


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Helen came to her senses as if emerging from a deep dive in


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Joseph lay still for a few minutes, until he regained his senses and slowly sat up


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He didn’t blame her, entering the spirit world with one’s head encased in an ensorcelled helmet was too scary to contemplate and was making him cold, especially with his senses heightened by the yaag

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Petr shook his head to clear his fuddled senses


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Her senses alert, she moved her feet a little, trying to gauge how treacherous the mud was


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his mind, over and over again, Flee! It was an hour before he finally came to his senses and stopped


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Racial memory alerted senses she didn’t know she had and ran messages along neural pathways long forgotten


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Ozzie appeared at her side holding a glass of water; it brought her back to her senses


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pressure buffeted his senses making his mind spin


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The sound brought both Angie and Kev to their senses and, her smile threatening to crack her face in two, Angie had pulled him into the house and shut the door


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thought he was dreaming, but as his senses started to return slowly and nerves


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Maggie is the first to come to her senses, and although she is winded, she is able to shake off the intoxication of violence


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Of course Beth always, tried not to let anyone know she had it, she even went so far as to do just what her senses told her not to do

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on end — his senses keenly alert


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The deeper she breathed to clear her head, the more his intoxicating cologne fill her every senses


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Had Johnny the Killer come to his senses?


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Yet also he was clearly aware of the orange rays, the eerie hooting of the lumin’s song, the softness of the tiny leaves beneath them and the perfection of her skin to a level beyond that given by mortal senses


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senses enough to realise that the best thing for him to do


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He prided himself on the flavors he could imagine from them, and was interested in souls with highly developed culinary senses


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She held out hope, all be it small, but there was hope in her heart that he may someday come to his senses and appear at the door


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All I can say is that I am sorry! I should have kept control of my senses and also Debra


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Matter of fact if she hadn’t come to her senses then, the Dickens Festival would’ve gone down the tubes


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grew more pronounced, and my senses began to react to

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An eyestream for an optic nerve, tactile streams for the touch senses, a lump of silicon for a living brain, a souped up avatar for a real human soul


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Your interface needs to query for the other senses as well as just the sight


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If your helmet was connected to your other senses, you would not be able to tell that you weren’t here in flesh


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The addressing to read the other senses is already provided by my environment if you can find a way to hook them up on yours when and if you want to


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«Interfaces to all the other senses


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«It’s such a great pleasure that we have those tactile senses working,» he said


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Roman continued to run toward us, then regained his senses


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Although this is a lovely spot here, and the experience of it is very real with all the senses hooked up


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Every now and then Alec came to his senses and pushed Nathalia away, forcing her to rent out her own quarters at the Wayward Inn


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I come to my senses when I remember that there is only one

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As the fire inside her dwindled, her senses returned and she realized that she was floating high above the head of Tetloan, suspended in the air by the arms of the elf


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Gradually his senses cleared, and he could hear the


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came to his senses and rushed towards the source of the


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“Have you lost your senses?” cried the grand-vizir, in horror


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Gradually his senses returned, and he realised that he was


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They entered the courtyard, or as their guide called it, ‘the garden’, and immediately their senses were assaulted


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This will heighten your senses, speed up both strength and reaction time and dull any sense of pain


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Her conscious motor nerves were shut down by the poison, her autonomous motor and all senses were still functioning


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A communications channel much like the phone brings the inputs from the android’s senses up to the ship, and the action and vocal outputs of Victoria’s mind down to the android


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He watched, numb, his mind no longer acknowledging his senses, blind to his environment and the events unfolding around him

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’ Marguerite was still in control of her senses enough


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It took a moment for his senses to return, and when they did, he found the woman unconscious and stretched across his lap


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His senses tuned to danger, Adros continued to survey the land


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His senses grew sharper


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to suddenly come to his senses


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tricks with his senses


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other, before Richard suddenly came to his senses


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tales could be richer in senses than it seems


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All of her senses were incredibly dull


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His next string of curses he directed towards himself, for letting his weariness blur his senses and allowing a simple blob of a creature to be his end

91.
As Adros slowly regained his senses he looked around, realizing he was still at the Hangar, and quite alive


92.
against you palm, and all that nature offers your senses


93.
senses with all this negativity on a daily basis


94.
Our senses heightened to an almost painful intensity until I touched her again


95.
I was consumed; each of my senses extended to their limits


96.
They processed their memories differently and relied heavily on senses rather than emotions


97.
Blackness permeated my eyesight, but my other senses sharpened


98.
The next morning, they’d come to their senses


1.
‘What is it?’ I asked, sensing something behind that last exclamation


2.
Sensing what he was up to, Jackson and Lady Isabol doubled their efforts to reach them


3.
Sensing that she was merely trying to save face, Rayne said she would use the wooden sword


4.
Denair remembered going thru the market place and sensing a strong life force about him, strangely familiar somehow


5.
probably sensing the truth about what was going


6.
Sensing the same, Mya offered a solution


7.
Carl peered through the candlelight at the janitor sensing his young friend


8.
Roman cut her off, sensing the onset of world war three


9.
“It’s always like this on Thanksgiving,” Buttworst said, sensing Roman’s


10.
“Keep your arrow on them,” Dobber said, sensing his fears

11.
‘The truth,’ she said, sensing his hesitance


12.
But she still held back, sensing that there was more


13.
She hadn’t seen him for a while and she neighed softly, sensing that it was an opportunity to get out for a change


14.
In fact, as Carius reentered the camp, sensing something newly amiss, he made his way right back to the physician’s tent


15.
Sensing her stare on the back of its large black head the animal turned around and stopped for a split-second


16.
The streams seemed to be sensing, enquiring, and sucking up nourishment


17.
“You know, reading people… sensing their auras… hearing stories of great beasts that savagely-”


18.
Sometimes our psychic antennae may be actually sensing place memory of a particular location


19.
sensing a rare opportunity


20.
However, the woman – perhaps sensing the man was intent on something more than mere emotional comforting – returned to her seat after a light pat on his shoulder

21.
Martin watched the screen of the heat sensing equipment looking for any white outlines that might be a man


22.
’ he wanted the suit to comment, to somehow offer some solace if not a solution, but it remained silent, only releasing it’s lock-hold, at least sensing that was the right thing to do now


23.
” replied Chris, sensing he was losing the argument


24.
But sensing his lack of comprehension it told him in English every precautionary measure it was taking to counter the ship’s mysterious effects, as its thrusters were edging him nearer


25.
He scanned the village streets as though sensing danger then he continued


26.
‘I have been wondering,’ she said, sensing he was about to try some


27.
Torbin stepped forward, sensing the Elusiver’s time was fast running out


28.
” He continued, sensing


29.
It was sensing for the Power that was always just beyond your reach, until the True Flow heightened your senses and you moved with greater speed and agility


30.
But now, as if sensing the need, he had to come back to say good-bye

31.
Tilden looked to the east, perhaps sensing for any demons in the distance, as did all the Guardians while also trying to look in every direction at once


32.
The building illuminated, sensing his presence, fluorescent strips extending to a near vanishing point


33.
‘All right now,’ Dr Karol said, surely sensing the escalating argument


34.
It would activate automatically, sensing Gerrid’s imminent rejection From TIAR


35.
The casket hatch swooshed open sensing the elevated bioactivity


36.
On sensing Halon’s concern, Saldon fought of his tiredness in preparing his mattress more slowly


37.
His dark eyes narrowed, and once again Amaranthe remembered his knack for sensing deception


38.
Perhaps sensing more than a practice bout, other men drifted over


39.
«And you would train me?» Darkburst asked, wrinkling his snout in excitement, sensing the power he was being offered


40.
The tree, sensing the coming winter, as it had for many generations past, settled itself more comfortably into the ground, its great roots creaking in protest as it did so

41.
All through the forest creatures paused in their activities, sensing some awesome event was taking place


42.
Thomas waited a few moments, and sensing that William was anticipating his response, spoke softly and directly


43.
«We left him on the forest path, Preceptor,» he answered nervously, sensing at once that they had made a terrible mistake


44.
The lead wolf was sensing the pressure from the others to commence the attack


45.
William, sensing their apprehension, quickly grabbed at the embankment, finding smaller rocks


46.
Finally she came up for air, sensing that I was squirming around quite a bit


47.
As if sensing this; she wouldn’t make eye contact


48.
As if sensing my thoughts, her eyes gleamed impishly over the table


49.
One day, sensing the end of its life nearing, the robin decided that it should return to the plant that had engendered it


50.
Reaching the edge of the rocks, she waited for a moment, sensing that more prey were coming near, but she’d already laid her eggs and had no more

51.
Sensing the animosity Troy felt towards Piers, Conal let go of Kirsti’s hand and stepped between them, a warning on his face as he stared at Troy


52.
Sensing the prey below, the Syclers above began dropping off the roof of the cave


53.
Sensing a movement behind him, Piers turned, glancing over his shoulder, gasping


54.
The nurse, possibly sensing that she had been too abrupt with me, softened and told me to come with her to the nursing station


55.
At the Southern edge of the forest, the Witch was sensing the growing danger


56.
Her brow furrowed at the thought that perhaps he was already sensing there was something wrong with the world he had been delivered into: it was harsh, demanding, and uncaring, but did her son have to know so soon? Perhaps he could sense the absence of his father’s touch


57.
Colling agreed, sensing that she wanted him to leave


58.
He had been aware that his desire for Elizabeth had grown each day as he had watched her become healthier and stronger, but he had kept both his words and his actions towards her in check, sensing that her experiences in the camp must have been dreadful


59.
Elizabeth was still sleeping soundly when Colling woke, sensing that it was morning, even though it was still dark


60.
Although cobras can hear, they are actually deaf to ambient noises, sensing ground vibrations instead

61.
Again, from a first sensing of a possible predator’s presence; to the receptacle of respect for the rewards of the hunt; to responsibility for the vagaries of climate oscillations; to the sensate presence imagined within the heavenly bodies; to the nearness of the family favorite, then the clan, the tribe, the village, the city, and finally the favorite of a nation, Man has always sensed something


62.
At the time, Charles Darwin attempted to explain the enigma, perhaps sensing part of the evolutionary mechanism


63.
She still wept without sensing it


64.
Sensing his change, his uncle, Uncle Ben, says to him, “Remember Peter, with Great Power, comes Great Responsibility


65.
Sensing the panic in his fragmented melody-making, I forgot my own and walked over to him


66.
I continued praying, “Please, help her, be with her,” sensing all the while that I was needed


67.
Sensing this, Philip II of Macedon made his move


68.
government, sensing trouble ahead, closed the border to further immigration and


69.
Sensing the familiar tense of Home,


70.
As if sensing her fears, he leaned forward and kissed her cheek

71.
Feeling and sensing these qualities naturally opens the door of your heart


72.
“Help us unload–” He stopped in mid-sentence, sensing they had no idea what


73.
“…Am I human?” Cloud repeated, sensing the captivation of the


74.
with urgency, sensing that something was terribly wrong as he


75.
They were sensing change


76.
The girl was sensing change


77.
Mikael was sensing change also, but he thought that she just grew tired of him and that was why she wasn’t coming to Earth often


78.
Honey, sensing the time, had rushed to the phone and dialed


79.
Several God Boys gave up the attempt sensing they had a lot to


80.
‘’ he weakly said to himself, but immediately stopped sensing something amiss

81.
The media had dropped it completely sensing a sea change and found other juicy news to latch onto


82.
Sensing danger, as only a trained professional can, Gretchen felt the small hairs on the back of her neck tingling


83.
Sensing my confusion he smiled still looking at them “Its interesting, that no matter how hard you throw a boomerang, it always comes back to you


84.
As if sensing my presence, Brandon stopped pacing and his head snapped to me


85.
Sensing our increasing strength, several red spectres dart simultaneously towards us in a final and desperate attempt to overcome us


86.
Sensing my immediate displeasure at a long and boring lecture, the clever old man changed his point


87.
Sensing that a race was afoot, their horses looked up and


88.
Nemia waited for that as well, her basket of barbering supplies in hand, sensing something was amiss, and missing Dalia with all her heart


89.
” Torin says while sensing Janay’s anger towards him


90.
Sensing that someone else had entered the aisle with her Amori glanced up from her book

91.
Sensing that I was on the muscle, he shrugged back into the depths of his plush chair, and good listener that he was, warily heard me out


92.
“What time was that?” Carrillo asked sensing that he could connect the two deaths with my statement


93.
Although technically, I am not sensing his location from here, since I am not here


94.
I am sensing his location from a far more distant place


95.
Youssaf, positioned somewhat ahead of the procession like a serpent’s tongue, sensing the environment for signs of danger, had shown signs of great relief upon first sighting Moshe


96.
The driver slumped forward loosing the reins as the horses again, sensing a loss of direction, slowed to the same aimless walk that took them also into the gully


97.
A few more breaths when Simon could see the rebellion in his father’s mind and then his colours faded out of all sensing


98.
Simon could feel the boy’s fear even without the gift of sensing thought, as the colours of orange and black filled his imagination


Synonym: comprehend, discern, fathom, feel, follow, grasp, intelligence, judgment, mentality, perceive, realize, understand. Similar words: in a sense, make sense, consensus, senseless, dense, offense, sensor, consent. Meaning: [sens]  n. 1. a general conscious awareness 2. the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted 3. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended 4. sound practical judgment 5. a natural appreciation or ability. v. 1. perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles 2. detect some circumstance or entity automatically 3. become aware of not through the senses but instinctively 4. comprehend. 

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1. Common sense is not common.

2. A man of sense talks little and listens much. 

3. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. 

4. A handful of common sense is worth bushel of learning. 

5. Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves. 

6. Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen. 

7. The experience reinforced my sense of loss.

8. Americans have an innate sense of fairness.

9. She has a strong sense of justice and fairness.

10. I credit him with a certain amount of sense.

11. Riders need a good sense of balance.

12. This theory makes sense of an otherwise inexplicable phenomenon.

13. They lulled her into a false sense of security.

14. He has no sense of responsibility.

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15. Yoga gives me a sense of inner calm.

16. He never lost his innate sense of fun.

17. She hasn’t an ounce of common sense.

18. Dogs have a keen sense of smell.

19. Afterwards I felt a great sense of relief.

20. Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.

21. Are you totally devoid of common sense?

22. The incident left me with a sense of helplessness.

23. I can’t stand people with no sense of humour.

24. He has no sense of humor.

25. There’s a lot of sense in what she says.

26. Her sense of disappointment was profound.

27. His sense of duty is very strong.

28. He had no sense of rhythm whatsoever.

29. Singing can create a sense of wellbeing.

30. I regard that man as lost,(sentencedict.com) who has lost his sense of shame. 

More similar words: in a sense, make sense, consensus, senseless, dense, offense, sensor, consent, expense, intense, license, defense, sensitive, sensation, sensitivity, at the expense of, send, lens, insect, insert, send in, send out, senior, send for, Senate, senator, essence, ensure, in secret, response. 

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noun

any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.

these faculties collectively.

their operation or function; sensation.

a feeling or perception produced through the organs of touch, taste, etc., or resulting from a particular condition of some part of the body: to have a sense of cold.

a faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation: the moral sense.

any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.: a sense of humor.

Usually sen·ses . clear and sound mental faculties; sanity: Have you taken leave of your senses?

a more or less vague perception or impression: a sense of security.

a mental discernment, realization, or recognition; acuteness: a just sense of the worth of a thing.

the recognition of something as incumbent or fitting: a sense of duty.

sound practical intelligence: He has no sense.

something that is sensible or reasonable: Try to talk sense instead of shouting.

the meaning or gist of something: You missed the sense of his statement.

the value or worth of something; merit: There’s no sense in worrying about the past.

the meaning of a word or phrase in a specific context, especially as isolated in a dictionary or glossary; the semantic element in a word or group of words.

an opinion or judgment formed or held, especially by an assemblage or body of persons: the sense of a meeting.

Genetics. a DNA sequence that is capable of coding for an amino acid (distinguished from nonsense).

Mathematics. one of two opposite directions in which a vector may point.

verb (used with object), sensed, sens·ing.

to perceive (something) by the senses; become aware of.

(of certain mechanical devices) to detect physical phenomena, as light, temperature, radioactivity, etc., mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.

Computers. to receive or capture (encoded data) electrically, photoelectrically, etc., through an input device:When you scan the bar code, an optical mark reader senses the data encoded in the position of the bars.Compare read1 (def. 16).

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Idioms about sense

    come to one’s senses, to regain one’s good judgment or realistic point of view; become reasonable.

    in a sense, according to one explanation or view; to a certain extent: In a sense it may have been the only possible solution.

    make sense, to be reasonable or comprehensible: His attitude doesn’t make sense.

Origin of sense

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English noun sens(e), from Middle French sens and Latin sēnsus “sensation, feeling, understanding,” equivalent to sent(īre) “to feel” + -sus, a variant of -tus, suffix of verbal action; verb derivative of the noun

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4. Sense, sensation refer to consciousness of stimulus or of a perception as pleasant or unpleasant. A sense is an awareness or recognition of something; the stimulus may be subjective and the entire process may be mental or intellectual: a sense of failure. A sensation is an impression derived from an objective (external) stimulus through any of the sense organs: a sensation of heat. It is also a general, indefinite physical or emotional feeling: a sensation of weariness. 13. See meaning.

OTHER WORDS FROM sense

half-sensed, adjectiveun·sensed, adjectiveun·sens·ing, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH sense

cents, scents, sense

Words nearby sense

sensation, sensational, sensationalism, sensationalize, sensationism, sense, Sense and Sensibility, sense datum, senseful, sensei, senseless

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Words related to sense

feel, impression, sensibility, sensitivity, taste, touch, ability, appreciation, atmosphere, aura, common sense, imagination, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, mentality, mind, recognition, sentiment

How to use sense in a sentence

  • In the absence of any competitions on the horizon, I just didn’t see how it made any sense to practice.

  • While I call these outlooks “depressed,” I mean it only in an economic sense.

  • Mixing flashy sexual parts and super-simple other parts makes sense for the plant kingdom’s extreme parasites.

  • This makes sense — our previous research shows that playoff experience matters a lot in the NBA.

  • In the future, Microsoft reckons it could make sense to co-locate such underwater data centers with offshore wind farms.

  • But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.

  • It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.

  • Other major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.

  • And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.

  • Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!

  • A constant sense of easy balance should be developed through poising exercises.

  • There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.

  • In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt’s sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.

British Dictionary definitions for sense


noun

any of the faculties by which the mind receives information about the external world or about the state of the body. In addition to the five traditional faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, the term includes the means by which bodily position, temperature, pain, balance, etc, are perceived

such faculties collectively; the ability to perceive

a feeling perceived through one of the sensesa sense of warmth

a mental perception or awarenessa sense of happiness

moral discernment; understandinga sense of right and wrong

(sometimes plural) sound practical judgment or intelligencehe is a man without any sense

reason or purposewhat is the sense of going out in the rain?

substance or gist; meaningwhat is the sense of this proverb?

specific meaning; definitionin what sense are you using the word?

an opinion or consensus

maths one of two opposite directions measured on a directed line; the sign as contrasted with the magnitude of a vector

logic linguistics

  1. the import of an expression as contrasted with its referent. Thus the morning star and the evening star have the same reference, Venus, but different senses
  2. the property of an expression by virtue of which its referent is determined
  3. that which one grasps in understanding an expression

make sense to be reasonable or understandable

verb (tr)

to perceive through one or more of the senses

to apprehend or detect without or in advance of the evidence of the senses

to understand

computing

  1. to test or locate the position of (a part of computer hardware)
  2. to read (data)

Word Origin for sense

C14: from Latin sēnsus, from sentīre to feel

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Other Idioms and Phrases with sense


see come to one’s senses; horse sense; in a sense; lull into (a false sense of security); make sense; sixth sense; take leave of (one’s senses); talk sense.

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Sentences for sense. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use sense in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for sense.

  • There was no sense in it. (10)
  • All felt a sense of discomfort. (12)
  • Do you detect a gleam of sense? (10)
  • Ashurst never had much sense of time. (8)
  • She had no sense of superiority then. (4)
  • I have some primitive sense of honour. (8)
  • She had a sudden sense of deep abasement. (8)
  • The sight infringed his sense of justice. (8)
  • Plain sense, as from gentlemen to gentlemen. (10)
  • They had, in the spiritual sense, frail hearts. (10)
  • A sense of coming defeat and bereavement was on him. (8)
  • I know I can rely on your sense, if you will rely on it. (10)
  • Hippias, when he could forget himself, did not lack sense. (10)
  • I have still a sense of exhaustion from it in our own case. (9)
  • Lord Valleys felt once more that uncanny sense of insecurity. (8)
  • And he returned to his own room with a curious sense of peace. (8)
  • Appeal and fear were in it, and a sense of personal grievance. (8)
  • The sense of triumph and renewed possession swelled within him. (8)
  • I had a queasy sense that I wore my last dry clothes upon my body. (2)
  • I took you for a woman of too much sense to mix in that foolishness. (13)
  • A dog is vastly braver, and is besides supported by the sense of duty. (2)
  • Well might common sense cower with the meaner animals at the picture. (10)
  • English to the backbone, he could not divest himself of a sense of guilt. (8)
  • You reproach us with lack of common sense, as if the belly were its seat. (10)
  • She is such an honest, wholesome creature, and so bright and full of sense. (9)
  • He would call it an offence against common sense, and have no mercy for it. (10)
  • This was disconcerting, being, in a sense, a disorderly way of seeing things. (8)
  • But a sense of the distinction between camps and courts restrained the soldier. (10)
  • Quite a new sensation; terribly delightful, bringing a sense of completed manhood. (8)
  • And, behind it all, the deep tribal sense that they stood together in trouble, grew. (8)
  • Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them; but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame. (4)
  • And, slowly taking up his glass, Shelton drank; the sense of well-being was upon him. (8)
  • And shaking his head with quite a sentimental sense of injury, he departed unrefreshed. (2)
  • So long as he had not to meet inquiries or face tears, he enjoyed the sense of security. (10)
  • To have been caught thus gazing at himself would have jarred on his sense of what was right. (8)
  • From such a perception of her humanity, it was natural that his livelier sense of it should diminish. (10)
  • So they met in the park; Mrs. Mount whipped past him; and secresy added a new sense to their intimacy. (10)
  • Nothing more, but the look, the voice, were everything; and while I live they cannot pass from my sense. (9)
  • The ladies, perhaps from a deficient sense of humor, listened with undisguised displeasure to this speech. (9)
  • But he could not, though a smile from his sense of the absurdity of their seriousness hovered about his lips. (9)
  • Her sense of hearing was now afflicted in as gross a manner as had been her sense of smell. (10)
  • The consideration that one is pursued by fate, will not fail to impart a sense of dignity even to the meanest. (22)
  • Harmony always existed, in a limited sense; but it did not take on a scientific development until the Middle Ages. (3)
  • He deserves a little credit for seeing that Emilia never could be his mistress, in the debased sense of the term. (10)
  • He was watching, with a teasing sense of familiarity, a tall, shabbily dressed, elderly man, who had just come in. (9)
  • The clamor and excitement and gross delight of living had numbed his sense of the fine, the noble, the restrained. (13)
  • Without compunction, or a sense of incongruity, she abused her brother and assisted the fulfilment of his behests. (10)
  • With his faith, whatever its tenets may have been, was implicated his uneasily active conscience; his sense of duty. (2)
  • Fiery words of lightning sense Down the hollows thunder; Forest hostels know not whence Comes the speech, and wonder. (10)
  • I could not even make her share my sense of my own culpability, a thing she was only too willing to do in most matters. (9)
  • Drink the sense the notes infuse, You a larger self will find: Sweetest fellowship ensues With the creatures of your kind. (10)
  • And he did not feel any special sense of obligation toward his employer, who had never displayed any great confidence in him. (13)
  • Miss Crawford need not have urged secrecy with so much warmth; she might have trusted to her sense of what was due to her cousin. (4)
  • But Bob Pillin was gone, leaving the lawyer with a very red face, a very angry heart, and a vague sense of disorder in his speech. (8)
  • I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. (4)
  • I felt so intensely sensitive, that the very idea of a snore gave me tremours and qualms: it was associated with the sense of fat. (10)
  • Irish anecdotes are always popular in England, as promoting, besides the wholesome shake of the sides, a kindly sense of superiority. (10)
  • She was less handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. (4)
  • When I read his version my sense aches for the rhyme which he rejected, but my admiration for his fidelity to Dante otherwise is immeasurable. (9)
  • The new warmth and singing in her heart had not destroyed, but rather heightened, her sense of the extraordinary interest of all things that be. (8)
  • In such men there is little or none of that fluid sense and continuity of feeling known under those vague terms, speculation, poetry, philosophy. (8)
  • Then he remembered noticing them, and started with a sense of recognition, which he verified by the hotel register when he had finished his meal. (9)

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