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
His nerves must have been overstrung, for he started violently, and came within an ace of dropping both candle-stick and match.
From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Guy Newell Boothby
Do you know," she said, "you and Morris both seem rather overstrung to me.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
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 Edward John Hardy
