intense

In a sentence

Six example sentences with intense, each labelled with its topic.

• The final circuit is so intense that most athletes cannot speak a full sentence until three minutes afterward.

  Fitness

• Shoot at dusk and the sky turns an intense violet the sensor can barely hold without clipping.

  Photography

• The cellist drew an intense low note that made the glasses on the bar rattle.

  Music

• Roasting the tomatoes for two hours gives the sauce an intense sweetness that raw ones never reach.

  Cooking

• The rivalry is so intense that both arenas sell out the moment the schedule is published each summer.

  Basketball

• The laser pulse is so intense that for a trillionth of a second it outshines every power station on Earth combined.

  Science

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• affected
• spectrum
• focused
• minimum
• established
• afterwards
• finance
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• implemented
• document
• strategy
• subsequently