exposed nerve
Example Sentences
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A scientist colleague of mine recently told me about a painful exposed nerve in his tooth.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023
Life as a teenager is like walking around with your skin peeled away: Every experience is magnified against exposed nerve endings and desperate hearts.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
As she thought about her Olympics to come, she was nothing short of an exposed nerve.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
But the VW campaign seemed to touch some kind of exposed nerve in America.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2021
The exposed nerve in that broken tooth made it ache like blazes.
From Man of Many Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans
