overstrung
Example Sentences
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Yes, overstrung, gaudily painted, honky tonk joannas for passersby to hammer out jazz standards on, which – naturally – many appeared to be able to do.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016
Both teams were overstrung, playing crazily in their eagerness to win.
From Time Magazine Archive
The former is a handsome, nervous, overstrung woman of about thirty-four, very fashionably dressed; Miss Fraser, on the contrary, a matter-of-fact, rather commonplace type of good humor—wholesomeness united to a kind of sense of humor....
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
If our nerves are overstrung, or our tempers tried, so far from endeavouring to conceal the fact we make them feel it.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
The people got on my overstrung youthful nerves.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry
