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Example sentences from the Web for nervesI was going to ask if you had nerves about opening on Broadway without a marquee name. Nigel Lythgoe on How to Save Reality TV, ‘On the Town,’ and ‘Brokeback Ballroom’|Kevin Fallon|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST It took a special, meticulous kind of person to accomplish the undertaking, someone with brains, patience, and nerves of steel. The High Society Bank Robber of the 1800s|J. North Conway|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST So I was more wrought with nerves about that than almost anything in that number. Oscars Host Neil Patrick Harris on His Best and Worst Emcee Moments (VIDEO)|Neil Patrick Harris|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST The thought of wearing shorts and swimsuits preyed on her nerves. ‘All About That Bass’ Singer Meghan Trainor On Haters and Her Polarizing (and Unlikely) No. 1 Hit|Marlow Stern|October 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not surprisingly, this laid-back ball of nerves is also both intensely rational and explosively emotional. Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Marie's nerves had given way, and she lay in a chair sobbing with weakness. Are your cares as a guardian wearing on your nerves, and bringing a need of stimulants? That Girl Montana|Marah Ellis Ryan I am afraid there may be an explosion; and you know my nerves can't stand much of a shock. Macleod of Dare|William Black The easy and (as we then thought) the rapid rate of traveling had its invigorating effect on her nerves. The Two Destinies|Wilkie Collins In poisonous doses it depresses the circulation and the nerves generally, but it causes no stupor or insensibility. The Action of Medicines in the System|Frederick William Headland
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pl n informalthe imagined source of emotional controlmy nerves won't stand it anxiety, tension, or imbalanceshe's all nerves bundle of nerves a very nervous person get on one's nerves to irritate, annoy, or upset one Words nearby nervesnerve of tensor tympani muscle, nerve plexus, nerve-racking, nerve root, nerve rootlet, nerves, nerve tissue, nerve to stapedius muscle, nerve trunk, Nervi, nervimotor Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to nervesnervousness, tension, stress, strain, irritation, imbalance, hysteria, fretfulness, sleeplessness, tenseness, neurasthenia |