nerve-racked

The final day of the PGA proved about as nerve-racked and thrilling as you'd want a golf tournament to be, even if you're not the kind of person who spends humid summer Sundays watching golf tournaments.

A New, Fist-Pumping Hero Emerges at PGA Jason Gay 2011

I got too excited and nerve-racked to keep it down. haha

Toy Story 3 rated G by the MPAA Mike 2010

In another intercept from the frantic corporate coupling, Fazio's wife, Maria Cristina, is heard comforting not her nerve-racked husband, but Banca Popolare's Fiorani.

Private Lies, Public Figures 2008

I pressed forward with the others to watch the United States physically entering the War, so god-like, so magnificent, so splendidly unimpaired in comparison with the tired, nerve-racked men of the British Army…The coming of relief made me realise all at once how long and how intolerable had been the tension, and with the knowledge that we were not, after all, defeated, I found myself beginning to cry.

Archive 2008-11-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2008

I pressed forward with the others to watch the United States physically entering the War, so god-like, so magnificent, so splendidly unimpaired in comparison with the tired, nerve-racked men of the British Army…The coming of relief made me realise all at once how long and how intolerable had been the tension, and with the knowledge that we were not, after all, defeated, I found myself beginning to cry.

For Me and My Gal - 1942 Jacqueline T Lynch 2008

Just in time for Memorial Day, PERI has scouted out enough safety-minded gadgets, gear and goop to calm even the most nerve-racked of athletes and vacationers.

Have A Really Safe Summer 2008

After suffering a recent miscarriage, Amy Janer was nerve-racked about her third pregnancy until she saw a 3D ultrasound at 32 weeks.

Jesus or placenta? You decide Sinfonian 2008

In an essay on book reviewing, George Orwell once portrayed the critic as "a man in a moth-eaten dressing gown ... a down-trodden, nerve-racked creature."

Archive 2006-05-01 Ann Althouse 2006

I will say I became a bit nerve-racked as the clock inched closer to my time to drop off the mail (which included my package to SecondSpin).

haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2006

She remembered very well that nerve-racked walk along Chelsea Embankment just after Ferse returned.

Flowering Wilderness 2004