How to use "sense" in a sentence

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check

So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection

The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself

I don't claim any constitutionality for a rebellion successful or otherwise, so long as that rebellion means in the ordinary sense of the term, what it does mean, namely, wresting justice by violent means

I say to my countrymen so long as you have a sense of honour and so long as you wish to remain the descendants and defenders of the noble traditions that have been handed to you for generations after generations; it is unconstitutional for you not to non-cooperate and unconstitutional for you to cooperate with a Government which has become so unjust as our Government has become.

Jean Valjean went back into the house and tried to make sense of the words that danced before his eyes: I shall die..

Marius, meanwhile, tried to make sense of what had happened to him

But there is something that does not make sense

"Yeah, that makes sense," Cham agreed

It all made too much sense

"That makes sense."

"But it doesn't make sense to me

"It's just common sense

In the brittle silence of the desert night, she imagined that she could sense an intruder listening too, listening for her.

A lavish use of blue velvet, dark leather, crystal chandeliers, and thick blue carpet, plus an excellent sense of dramatic lighting, gave the mammoth chamber some of the feeling of a cozy cabaret in spite of its size.

Together they formed an odd but solid community, with a satisfying sense of belonging

She loved them as much as life itself, and she knew they truly wanted her with them; they were not inviting her out of a misguided sense of guilt and obligation

In spite of her anxiety, a power she could sense - but which she could not define - drew her inexorably to Danny's room.

But there's a lot of sense in what Joel says, so I'm going to try to play it cool."

She had lost the momentum occasioned by her anger, and now she was afraid of losing the sense of purpose that had driven her to confront him

That makes a lot of sense, Tina."

That was scary because it didn't make sense

She had an almost psychic sense that the perpetrator of this viciousness was in the building now, perhaps on the third floor with her

"Tina, you know this theory doesn't make sense

Of course, during the first of those two years, she'd still been married to Michael and had felt compelled to remain faithful to him, even though a separation and then a divorce had been in the works, and even though he had not felt constrained by any similar moral sense

"In what sense do you mean that?"

Good sense of color

My wife has a real good sense of color."

As Elliot drove away from the burning house, his instinctual sense of danger was as sensitive as it had been in his military days

"In a sense, yes."

He knew exactly what she meant, but he didn't want to think about it, because there was no way he could make sense of it

I sense it

"A tremendous sense of peace, of reassurance, came over me in the diner, just before you finally managed to shut off the jukebox

I sense it

"Now really, Elliot, talk sense

"But that doesn't make sense."

"It doesn't make any sense," Zachariah said

"No sense at all

The problem is that some flaky people are attracted to this kind of work because of the secrecy and because you really do get a sense of power from designing weapons that can kill millions of people

Which doesn't make sense

There are a lot of people here who have some sense of social responsibility about this work

At first, I thought the writers had put lampposts on this road, which would make no sense, as it is a secret route through restricted government property

He enjoyed life, had a good sense of humour, loved children and animals, and could not bear to see anyone suffer.

'She has a sense of humour.'

London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night not knowing much and caring even less, was woken in the early hours of Monday morning to a real sense of danger.

None of the wars of history had such an effect - six million people, moving without weapons or food or any real sense of direction

This face had no nose - I do not think they had any sense of smell - but it had a pair of very large, dark eyes, and just beneath these a kind of v-shaped mouth

I had no regrets about this, but in the stillness of the night, with a sense that God was near, I thought again of every part of our conversation from the time we had first met

I must admit that the trouble and danger of our time have left a continuing sense of doubt and fear in my mind

Perhaps Pesca knew the Count? Perhaps the Count really was a spy - a spy in a much more important sense than Laura had intended when she called him by that name.