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
When little Anna arrived she looked overstrung, her hands trembled as her thin fingers turned the pages of her manuscript and arranged the lights on the tribune.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
Probably it was the state of my health, which was very queer at that time, which had converted me into a terribly sensitive, overstrung, fanciful spirit-seer.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Do you know," she said, "you and Morris both seem rather overstrung to me.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
