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
I own to you, Kitty, the trial was too much for my nerves, overstrung as they have been by late events.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
You are overstrung, and tired; you don't know what you are saying.
From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.
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 Boothby, Guy Newell
