ADJ
- acute, good, keen
- poor
- sixth
VERB + SENSE
- have
- He has an acute sense of smell
- lose
- She lost her sense of hearing early in life
- regain
- heighten, sharpen
- dull
- appeal to
- He argued that art should appeal to the senses rather than the intellect
SENSE + VERB
- tell sb
- When she came to, her senses told her she was lying on a sandy beach
- reel, swim
- Her senses reeled as she fought for consciousness
PREP
- through the ~s
- Although he can't see, he learns a lot through his other senses
PHRASES
- an assault on the senses, the evidence of your senses, the five senses, the sense of hearing/sight/smell/taste/touch
ADJ
- deep, great, keen, strong, tremendous
- He felt a deep sense of relief after the phone call
- growing, heightened
- slight, vague
- a vague sense of unease
- innate, intuitive, natural
- a natural sense of justice
- moral
VERB + SENSE
- feel, have
- display, show
- give sb
- lose
- heighten, sharpen
- dull
PREP
- ~ of
- He seems to have lost his sense of reality
ADJ
- good
- bad, poor
- innate, intuitive, natural
- business, dress
- He has no dress sense
PREP
- ~ of
- a good sense of direction/rhythm/timing
ADJ
- good
- common, horse
- Common sense tells me I should get more sleep
VERB + SENSE
- have
- He at least had the sense to call the police
- display, show
- learn
- I wish my daughter would learn some sense
PHRASES
- have more money than sense, (not) an ounce of sense
- If you had an ounce of sense, you'd never have agreed to help him
ADJ
- perfect
- It all makes perfect sense (= is easy to understand)
VERB + SENSE
- make
- see
- I tried to make him see sense, but he just wouldn't listen
- talk
- If you can't talk sense, I'm leaving!
PREP
- ~ in
- There's a lot of sense in what he's saying
PHRASES
- talk sense into sb
- We'll try and talk a little sense into her
- there's no sense in sth
- There's no sense in going home before the film
VERB + SENSE
- come to, regain
- take leave of
- Have you taken leave of your senses?
- bring sb to
PHRASES
- in your (right) senses
- No one in their right senses would give him the job!
ADJ
- broad, wide
- The novel is about education in its widest sense
- narrow, strict
- accepted
- figurative, metaphorical
- literal
- pejorative
- legal, technical
VERB + SENSE
- have
- That word has three senses
- make
- That sentence doesn't make sense (= has no meaning)
PREP
- in a ~
- In a sense, she's right
PHRASES
- in every sense of the word, in a very real sense
- In a very real sense, post-war repression was the continuation of the war
- in the true sense of the word