Definition: 1. Involving a lot of work or activity done in a short time. 2. Extremely thorough; done with a lot of care. 3. Tending to give force or emphasis.
Use 'intensive' in a sentence:
1. Boren surprisingly led off the most intensive line of questioning today.
2. In the early 1940s, basking in the glory of chemical-based intensive agriculture, the farmers avidly took to pesticides as a sure measure to boost crop yield.
3. Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.
4. There we received several weeks of intensive training.
5. Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat has been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive crops, such as strawberries, need labor.
6. Reading the earnings announcements of large retail stores like Macy's, Nordstrom, and Target is about as uplifting as a tour of an intensive care unit.
7. Among them is the father of a prematurely born daughter who reported that during the baby's five weeks in the intensive care unit, "learning how to knit infant hats gave me a sense of purpose during a time that I felt very helpless."
8. I'll make an intensive study of a subject.
9. Analysis on Intensive Management of Rural Land and Its Large-scale cultivation.
10. The report also says that intensive livestock operations can pose serious ecological risks.
11. Furthermore, in the effort to feed the hosts of people on this planet, the focus on factory and intensive farming methods is being cited as a key factor in climate change.
12. Some books are for intensive study and some are for cursory reading.
13. They take more care and have a greater number of staff than more intensive abattoirs.
14. There have been intensive discussions between the two governments in recent days.
15. She spent the night in intensive care after the operation.
16. Both provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritional advice.
17. Borlaug's advocacy of intensive high-yield agriculture came under severe criticism from environmentalists in recent years.
18. Our intensive course builds on our standard course, with 10 additional lessons per week.
19. Apart from this, being able to give up labor-intensive grain production freed both the land and the workforce for more productive agricultural divisions.
20. In English study, intensive reading must be combined with extensive reading.
21. Analysis of the monitoring results of air bacteria in intensive care unit.
22. He is critically ill in intensive care.
23. The use of herbicides and intensive forms of agriculture means that fields of wheat and barley now have few weeds.
24. Millions of hectares of forest and woodland fell before the newcomers' axes between 1850 and 1890, as intensive European farming methods expanded across the world.
25. The revolution involved intensive commercial farming and the growing of animal fodder on land not previously used for crops.
26. The program will offer patients several bags of food prescribed for their condition, along with intensive training in how to cook it.
27. His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing.
28. A United Nations report says reaching that goal will require major increases in intensive, high-efficiency livestock operations for both meat and dairy production.
29. Intensive reading: fifty years of English Teaching in china;
30. Intensive cultivation exposes the earth to the damaging forces of nature.
31. After school classes, intensive music lessons and an emphasis on besting the competition in team sports are all favorites of the snowplough parent, who also, on occasion, take charge of their children's homework.
32. Our Intensive Course builds on our Standard Course, with 10 additional lessons per week, guaranteeing the fastest possible language learning ( see table below).
33. The short answer as to why so many characters wear gloves is that animation is an intensive process.
34. What did Ammie Kalan and her colleagues find through their intensive fieldwork?
35. Some are pricey---a three-week intensive program can cost$ 4,500 or more — but most offer scholarships.
36. The weekly amount of exercise recommended by the World Health Organization ( WHO) is 150 minutes of moderately intensive activity, or more than 75 minutes of vigorously intensive physical activity.
37. Each counsellor undergoes an intensive training programme before beginning work.
38. They secure their degrees by slogging through an intensive 11-month course.
39. Intense-personal aspect of celebrity worship reflects intensive and compulsive feelings about the celebrity, akin tendencies of fans often referred to in the literature;
40. Intensive cultivation has impoverished the soil.
41. He was put on a life-support machine in intensive care.
42. Ahead of us lay ten days of intensive training.
43. He'll need intensive physiotherapy.
44. The baby was in intensive care for 48 hours.
45. They spend several weeks each year undergoing intensive treatment which enables them to coordinate their limbs better.
46. Intensive farming in the area has caused severe degeneration of the land.
47. Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions.
48. Elsewhere large areas have been drained and levelled for industry or intensive farming.
