stress
Example Sentences
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Gollapudi says he’ll miss the whimsy of it all, if not the stress of having to check in precisely 24 hours before your flight for the best boarding position.
“You might be sick. But it could be a reaction to stress. You’ve been taken from an environment you know, dropped into a new one...it’s a lot to process.”
From Literature
“You’re holding a lot of tension in your muscles. When you breathe in, only take in the things that you want to have inside your body. Good energy. Good thoughts. Knowledge. Understanding. Things like that. And when you blow out, get rid of all the things you don’t want to have inside you. Negative thoughts. Stress. That terrible meatloaf they served in the cafeteria Friday.”
From Literature
An adjustable bed subjects the mattress to stress it was not built to withstand.
From MarketWatch
The widespread cancellations will be the first major stress test for airlines since the U.S.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
