hair-trigger
Example Sentences
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Thursday’s swings in oil prices were the latest in a hair-trigger market in which traders have been glued to any new information, sparking moves with a scant relationship to the underlying disruption to physical supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
His hair-trigger homemade contraption pressured all three major networks into giving Kiritsis airtime to explain his grievances to the public.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
Their entire business model, their whole inner nature, is predicated on hair-trigger litigiousness, predatory aggressiveness and a hunger to win at all costs.
From Salon • May 24, 2025
Linney plays Kristine as a martyr with a hair-trigger temper.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
It’s their tension, their hair-trigger excitement and blocked adrenaline that fills the plane, despite the lax bodies of the passengers, their fatigue and resignation.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
