live wire

Example Sentences

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I thought I would have become less of a live wire, but that hasn’t happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The basement of a rowhouse in South Baltimore exploded Saturday morning due to the combustive combination of a live wire and leaking natural gas.

From Washington Times • Nov. 18, 2023

Mr James, a high-voltage utility line worker from Arkansas, lost most of his face when it accidentally touched a 7,200-volt live wire in 2021.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023

It was a live wire; it would have burned me to actually entertain these things, to actually bring them forth into consciousness.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Her harebrained live wire of a daughter, the perpetual overreactor, prone to fits of furious indignation about nothing at all.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng