sense
/sɛns/ verb B2- To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
- To instinctively be aware. · She immediately sensed her disdain.
- To comprehend.
He/she/it senses · Past sensed · Past participle sensed · -ing form sensing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sense
- He/she/it
- senses
- Past
- sensed
- Past participle
- sensed
- -ing form
- sensing
From the library
“There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us.
It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of _that_ is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’”
And my shoe heels are horridly common-sense; I can’t blame them at all.”
Tell her that, since she has commanded me neither to speak nor to write to her, I take this means of making one last appeal to her sense of justice, for the sake of what has been.
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