INTENSIVE in a Sentence

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1. Competition for the job was intense.
2. I am suffocated by the intense heat.
3. He was sweating from the intense heat.
4. He suddenly felt an intense pain in his back.
5. Feeling were so intense that they fought a duel.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTENSIVE
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intensive
 a.  thorough; concentrated; tending to give force or emphasis
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  To Ethan, still in the rosy haze of his hour with Mattie, the sight came with the intense precision of the last dream before waking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Scarlett hesitated and saw one of the convicts raise a weary head and give Johnnie a stare of intense hatred before he looked at the ground again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  It won't occur to them that women of--their profession are capable of intense loyalty or patriotism.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Even on her way up the stairs, she had not thought of preparing a pretext for her visit, but she now felt an intense longing to dispel the cloud of misunderstanding that hung between them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
5  She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  After that she continued to sit at the table, sorting her papers and writing, till the intense silence of the house reminded her of the lateness of the hour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7  She was in a silver sheath, the calyx of a lily, her piled hair like black glass; she had the fragility and costliness of a Viennese goblet; and her eyes were intense.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  One early evening she startled them by screaming, in an intense abdominal pain, and within half an hour she was in a delirium.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  The priest was a thin, swart, intense young man with a bang.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
11  "I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
12  An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
13  It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
14  The intense heat of the fire is prevented from communicating itself to the deck, by means of a shallow reservoir extending under the entire inclosed surface of the works.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
15  We were clear from the carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
16  The boys will be taken to an intensive care unit where they will remain in a drug induced coma for up to five days to prevent brain damage.
17  The President is under intense pressure to resign.
18  The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
19  There is now intense competition between schools to attract students.
20  The economic pressures on small businesses are intense.
21  The company has come under intense scrutiny because of its environmental record.
22  Even in July the windchill factor can be intense.
23  Feeling were so intense that they fought a duel.
24  I am suffocated by the intense heat.
25  He was sweating from the intense heat.
26  His love life was complicated, and involved intense relationships.
27  Competition for the job was intense.
28  The very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.
29  He suddenly felt an intense pain in his back.
30  Young people today are under intense pressure to succeed.