nervous

Example Sentences

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"That one was sketchy. I hit a really good putt and luckily it went in and then I was really nervous from there on out."

From Barron's

“It was easy until the 16th, then I made it harder. I was crazy nervous on that five-footer for bogey. I couldn’t feel my hands the last two greens.”

From Los Angeles Times

Arsenal were the furthest thing from "nervous as hell."

From BBC

"It wasn't perfect but I'm happy. It was a great ending," said Drean, who admitted that the previous night he was "a little bit nervous".

From Barron's

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon