Nerves [noun]

Definition of Nerves:

extreme anxiety

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Sentence/Example of Nerves:

Was it not fear that had made his nerves so rocklike as he faced that crowd and made his get-away?

Terrible jarrin' to the nerves when folks come in and call on a sick man.

The man had no fear, he had no nerves; he was a machine, and death was his business.

His nerves had ceased their jangling under the tautening of necessity.

But after a week or two her nerves were stretched taut as a string.

As we should say to-day, he was too emotional, and lived on his nerves.

At the hospital they said his nerves were iron; there was no let-down after the day's work.

The word grated upon my nerves, I had been so glad to forget.

Is it possible that I once rode frisky colts bareback and had no nerves!

I steadied my nerves with a tiny glass of Curaoa, and looked again.