How To Use High-strung In A Sentence
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As I say, the young are high-strung, nervous, excitable; the middle - aged are empty-headed, stolid, and stupid.
THE GHETTO
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I was always a bit high-strung and a bit neurotic.
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Earlier this year, the Valley Center doctors had to deal with a request from a high-strung expectant mother who had been bedridden in Valley Hospital for a month to prevent premature birth.
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Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people.
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The crass chief of neurosurgery is a high-strung hard-ass from Boston who makes life miserable for everyone.
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She's so high-strung you can hear her twanging.
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He scoots from machine to machine, checking e-mail and monitoring file-trading activity while occasionally scolding Cookie, his high-strung pit bull puppy.
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The race was delayed 15 minutes, a potential disaster for Hat Trick and fellow high-strung horses Rakti and Asakusa Den'en from Japan.
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How can one be so mellow and the other so high-strung?
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Delaney rolled her eyes at the mention of John's overbearing girlfriend, Virginia; a woman she found to be rather high-strung.
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Their efforts inevitably end in arguments-the more work my parents undertake, the more high-strung they become.
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Arguments between mothers and teenage daughters may be as regular as rain, but when the twosome is a high-strung, reactive mother and a high-strung, pubescent daughter, it can look so crazy that dads are mystified by the emotional downpour.
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And I heard that he came across as very tense and high-strung, while Coleman was more relaxed and natural.
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He talks in the polished, high-strung manner of an experienced politician.
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Extreme sensitiveness is apt to accompany a spirit of just his high-strung, petulant, and spleenful sort.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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Jesus, Veronica, you never used to be this high-strung.
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High-strung reporters ordering formalwear online is inherently risky, and on the day before the gowns were due to arrive last week, the system went haywire.
Reporter's Notebook: Discount Fashion Comes at a Cost
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While on overall appearance Zack scored an easy eight, Abby soon found him overbearing — a high-strung junior land agent who spluttered when he spoke.
The Temperature of Porridge
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I'm not blaming my kid, but she's very high-strung.
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Set in the 1930s, the play shows us the high-strung Albertine as a frighteningly intense 20 year old.
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Or maybe you can think of some frenetic, high-strung, wiry, squirrelly people.
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So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.
The Lady Paramount
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Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people.
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She's high-strung, suspicious and full of moral rectitude.
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On top of that, the couple - John the nice passive accommodator to Deb's high-strung perfectionism - are going through marital problems that neither of them are able to articulate.
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Petite, innocent Shirley was naïve, high-strung, and terribly afraid of soiling her spotless reputation.
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He was a difficult man - high-strung and unpredictable, at times nearly hysterical.
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Unfortunately, there's a dirty cheater willing to do anything to win, even if that means shafting the dean's high-strung, drug-addicted genius son.
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‘Listen, she's just a little high-strung at the moment,’ he explained, gesturing lightly towards Sydney.
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The Brazilian fans' samba rhythms may be loose, but when it comes to their national team, they are incredibly high-strung and impatient.
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She was dynamic, a bit high-strung, of strong character, and completely devoted to the cause.
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Immaculata, 19 years old and high-strung, appears at my bedroom door, hands on hips and nostrils flaring, every atom of her quivering with melodrama.
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The high-strung Sadler's Wells colt galloped smoothly, but returned to the barn lathered up on his neck, a sign of nervousness he has betrayed before many of his European races.
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Leigh's interpretation has a high-strung quality, a wildness that hints in some scenes of being on the edge of hysteria.
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If you're a red-faced hockey dad in Massachusetts, a high-strung cheerleading mom in Texas or some other species of overzealous sports parent, be warned.
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Actors were high-strung at the best of times, but with the pressure of performance couples frequently fought, tearing the cast apart.
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I do have to say, however, that Mrs. D. turned out to be an okay lady and inexplicably rather fond of me, but that woman was so high-strung I always wanted to ask her if she'd taken her pills that day.
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Meanwhile, back home, Elners nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elners neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchand the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, What is life all about, anyway?
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg: Book summary
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Breed dogs who are very sensitive to motion—who probably have an overabundance of rod photoreceptors in their retinae—and you may also get a dog whose acute sensitivity to motion leads to their being temperamentally high-strung.
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