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
His overstrung nerves betrayed themselves in a dozen different ways.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
Poor Dicky, he had a weak heart, overstrung nerves, and an injudicious mother; and between them, was fast being ruined body and soul, when Miriam came to save him.
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
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 Charles James Lever
