high-strung

Example Sentences

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Jeremy Allen White, who portrays the high-strung lead chef in “The Bear,” won his first Emmy for best actor in a comedy.

From New York Times

We’re so high-strung and angry with one another these days that we have to bring humor.”

From Los Angeles Times

Siraj Wahhaj could not be reached immediately by phone or email, but previously said his son and namesake is high-strung but not an extremist, and his two detained daughters are the “sweetest kinds of people.”

From Seattle Times

And when the Parisian crowds rolled into the Salon of 1865, they too went berserk in front of Édouard Manet’s painting of a courtesan, her maid and her high-strung black cat.

From New York Times

Oliver is one of those dog people, by the way – a bulldog lover who acts like a high-strung terrier.

From Salon