nervy

Example Sentences

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Nervy and emphatic, Haddad grew up in a Cleveland suburb, the youngest of three boys.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

As “Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch” suggests, the grande dame of Broadway brought life to scores of characters for decades, but she was a complicated, often dramatic character herself.

From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2019

EST 15:50 49 min: Nervy moments for Everton just then as Sterling looked to worry Stones, and Everton blam it clear.

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2016

Q. Ex-Husband’s Nervy Request: My marriage broke up three years ago when I discovered my husband had been cheating on me and the woman he was seeing was pregnant.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2015

Nervy work loading up our stores and kits on to the G.S. wagon, but the enemy battery had returned to its favourite spot by the Cutting, and nothing further worried us.

From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.