nervous
Example Sentences
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Joan describes how those letters eventually led to a nervous face-to-face meeting after Jacob was released from jail.
From BBC
“The only thing that makes me nervous as a long-term strategist is that we’re all in the same camp.”
“I didn’t really know Paul, and I had to get so intimate and so upset but hold it together, and I was a bit nervous,” Jacobi recalls.
From Los Angeles Times
“It was very defeating,” said Martin, who has been teaching English in Madrid since her May 2025 graduation and is nervous about rebooting her corporate job search.
“Although at least two of the teachers seemed distinctly uncomfortable—one by acting defensive and rude, and the other by appearing nervous—every teacher answered, ‘No.’”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
