high-strung

Example Sentences

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Tom is a law professor and his wife, Amy, is a frustrated and high-strung housewife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Yet despite how high-strung she could be for no good reason, Marnie was and is lovable.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2025

“Everyone’s a little bit high-strung, which is understandable,” said Sara Grimaldi, 22, who has been working on youth voter engagement for a feminist group throughout the campaign.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

He was young and high-strung, and by his own admission he didn’t handle failure well.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024

The Hamiltons were strange, high-strung people, and some of them were tuned too high and they snapped.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck