How To Use Nervous In A Sentence

On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.” Storyteller
Meg looked worn and nervous, the babies absorbed every minute of her time, the house was neglected, and Kitty, the cook, who took life 'aisy', kept him on short commons. Little Women
This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
Aidan squeaked, with an added stutter because he was suddenly nervous.
Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.

She managed to speak without betraying her nervousness.
He seemed nervous and twitchy as he came up close to Cleo, and rested a hand on the toe of her boot.
Watching replays of her victory run induced nervousness. Times, Sunday Times
Actions: a sure and effective restorative to the nervous system. The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism
She hadn't seen Kenta much, but when she had in the last week he had been smiling nervously and in a strained manner.
She felt nervous at having to sing before such a large audience.
The stress she had been under at work reduced her to a nervous/quivering wreck.
She recounts in detail her nervousness around him, her supposedly dangerous fascination with his charm.
My ears were met with the noise of Bam nervously jangling his car keys.
She looked composed as she was snapped on the red carpet with her fellow judges - despite admitting she was nervous. The Sun
She was fidgeting nervously with her pen.
It claims to be able to screen out people who are nervous or stressed from those that are lying.
Anyone climbing the ladder to the loft is suspended above the vertical spiral stairwell - not recommended for those nervous of heights.
False perception can arise only if the nervous system has spontaneous activity independently of any causative external object.
The speaker gave a nervous cough.
Sauntering over, he saw that they were inspecting the wares of a very nervous jerboa vegetable seller. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
The finding of large cavernous spaces filled with mucopolysaccharides is consistent with ischemic processes elsewhere in the central nervous system.
Is that why she was so skittish and nervous around me?
I finally read the warning about nervousness, dizziness, or sleeplessness.
Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand.
The merest little noise makes him nervous.
I looked at him dourly and gnawed on my nail nervously.
Chris seemed nervous and unsure of herself.
Her eyes moved about in worry and she began to chew her bottom lip nervously.
Chilies also stimulate the nervous system, accentuating the effects of arousal, which is very, very, very good for very, very, very good sex. Christina Pirello: The Top 10 Foods for Great Sex
Maura let out a nervous guffaw before clapping her hand over her mouth again, keeping her giggles silent.
Mary Torres, of Ratcliffe Street, York, nervously watched the game with her Argentine husband Pablo and four-year-old son Nico, who worships the South American side.
“His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
It's hard to say whether this is a hangover from the breakdown or just his incredible nervous energy finding an outlet.
For he really did believe capitalism controls the proles not by physical oppression but by bread and circuses, by cultural debasement - or ‘dumbing down’ as we now nervously say.
The referees and their assistants look like nervous wrecks before the match. Times, Sunday Times
Jim was not in the mood for any more liquor or food, and simply sat, trying and failing not to clasp and unclasp his hands nervously. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
I was incredibly nervous and uptight - seeing your hero in the flesh is truly a terrifying experience.
The days are gone when I am going to get nervous about games or worry about whether or not I play well.
After a breakfast of pasta and 3 cups of tea, I went to the garage to fetch my bike only to find my Dad, who looked more nervous than me, frantically pumping up my tyres.
MS is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. Times, Sunday Times
Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe -- Life of Robert Browning
If he'd been at all nervous or twitchy or had anything suspicious about him, I would have picked it up right away.
The younger ones will probably be less nervous than the older players. Times, Sunday Times
(It was formerly called the sympathetic nervous system, but this term is now limited to one part of this system, and the term autonomic to another part, although some writers still use the term sympathetic for the whole, and others [the English] the term autonomic for the whole.) The Foundations of Personality
The fully formed mycological nervous system is capable of functioning at roughly the same level as lower-level predators such as reptiles.
Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous. The Human Brain
The telltale charts of my crescograph {FN8-2} are evidence for the most skeptical that plants have a sensitive nervous system and Autobiography of a Yogi
Her apparent indifference made him even more nervous.
M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
When she gets nervous she fusses over unimportant details.
I look at my big daft name on the back wall and nervously come down the stairs. The Sun
Although the oil-rich kingdom has escaped the sort of unrest unleashed in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, there have been signs of domestic discontent over high unemployment, as well as some nervousness that Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority could be inspired by the protests of their co-religionist neighbors in Bahrain. Saudi King to Return Home as Turmoil Sweeps Region
I heard little of the nervous chatter the boys made while we returned to the Academy's inner grounds; in my mind, I was making a list.
I looked nervously around the cabin.
They suffered from nervous tension when the signal was shown on a radarscope.
He tried to hide his nervousness.
When he goes to the podium to introduce his fellow speakers, he walks with a nervous shuffle. Times, Sunday Times
The orientation toward nervous ailments at Steinhof, then, embodied an attempt to fight the marginalization of the asylum on a number of levels.
James stood up and wiped his hands on his jeans nervously and compulsively, as if trying to disassociate himself from death. CLASS TRIP
This infelicitous parental combination had produced a timid, nervous son whose prognosis for healthy adulthood was poor.
Even the campaign's biggest newspaper enthusiasts are nervous about any accusation of being prejudiced, devoting many column inches to denying charges of homophobia and bigotry before they had even been made.
This aspect may cause frequent headaches and also can produce nervous disorders.
Such information is transformed to the brain cells and keeps the nervous centralis highly excited, thus degrading the quality of sleep.
Beneath his confident exterior, he was desperately nervous.
Most of the girls were up at the crack of dawn because of their nervous excitement.
For the next two hours, the bold captain stayed below, eating and drinking, rebuffing nervous passengers and becoming more and more brusque and abusive to anyone who remonstrated with him.
But he was a slight man with a stoop and a nervous disposition. THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: The Man who Measured London
However, its side effects consist of tiredness, upset stomach, nervousness, dizziness, and difficulty concentrating.
Don't be so nervous?anyone would think I was about to leap on you.
She must be nervous,she fusses about all the time.
Foreign investors are nervous about coming in because of the deteriorating security situation.
She grew increasingly nervous as the date of the audition drew closer.
All this accounts for the nervousness of MPs, even those in ultra-safe seats, who may miss their chance in government because of one slipshod campaign or a knucklehead candidate.
Consideration is given first to the anatomic arrangement of the nervous and skeletal muscle systems involved in this activity.
Objective To investigate the effect of the autonomic nervous system on the transmural dispersion of ventricular repolarization(TDR) under acute myocardial ischemia in intact canine.
Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that can produce a quick, powerful high, usually by depressing the central nervous system.
His first show in the city, Rocky was plainly nervous about the response.
The really scary part is that, while all these symptoms can clear up by themselves, the disease can lie dormant in your system for decades before damaging vitals such as your nervous system and heart.
Zebrafish, also known as zebra danio, have become popular research subjects because they are cheaper to breed than mice and they have a backbone that better represents the human nervous system than fruit flies. Fish Suffer From Insomnia, Scientists Reported on Monday. | Impact Lab
Nervous observers sketched doomsday scenarios, but the president received widespread bipartisan support.
He answered somewhat nervously.
She nervously giggled but gave him a strained look craving an answer to her question.
A half-admiring, half-nervous public quickly dubbed his swaggering and very personal style of government the Dadis Show, which was the name of a television programme in which the captain himself questioned and berated miscreants. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Damon said he was especially nervous when he was doing a scene in the water, because “to drown is a very human fear.” Rose McGowan Injured On Set Of “Red Sonja”
The brain and nervous system display the same progressive ascent from the brainless acrania, up through the fishes, batrachia, reptiles, and birds to the top in mammals. Time and Change
They looked beautifully smart, composed and very nervous. Times, Sunday Times
The captain wandered about like a lost soul, nervously chewing his mustache, scowling, unable to make up his mind what to do. THE SEED OF McCOY
Bog spavins can be large and highly visible, and make horse-owners very nervous, but they're just lumps - not lamenesses.
Never come between an excitable cow/heifer and her calf and never ever turn your back on a nervous animal in a small space.
I was nervous, certainly; afraid I might lose something dear to me.
Mr Teasdale had put on last year's ski video in an attempt to take nervous people's mind off the drop which was a few feet from their right.
The issue before the trial judge was whether the plaintiffs had suffered compensable nervous shock.
I get very nervous because I'm using a lot of expensive equipment.
There is increasing evidence of involvement of the enteric nervous system in immune regulation and in inflammatory responses in the gastrointestinal system.
The lemkin peered up at the giant and fingered the rope noose nervously. The Size of Things « A Fly in Amber
If his nervous demeanour - fiddling with his cigarette box, avoiding eye contact - rather belies his confidence with a camera, his work fortunately speaks for itself.
Philip paced the floor, a typically nervous expectant father.
Lena stepped nervously into the classroom, smoothing her jeans the best she could, and brushing the long brown hairs from her black top.
While the technology is inarguably impressive, the idea makes me a little nervous. The Sun
Exposure to some pesticides, particularly the organophosphates, destroys important enzymes in the nervous system.
Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
Don't stand over me all the time - it makes me nervous.
She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual. Times, Sunday Times
Then we began the second half the walk through countryside, stopping to marvel nervously at an enraged bull bellowing from a field. Times, Sunday Times
The one horn of the study, inclined condole of a TV is in housetop, it is below result put symphonious noise, they were brought for nervous at ordinary times job a few relaxed.
Then are you dead nervous they'll drive past you again ages later and get you.
For a little while Donald lay awake under the eaves in his loft room, but his sleeplessness was the result neither of worry or nervous tension. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
She gets so nervous before any show. The Sun
Since 1948 his research topics have included carbohydrate-amino acid relationship in nervous tissue, a study of the mode of action of insulin, fermentation technology, 6-aminopenicillanic acid and penicillinase-stable penicillins, lysergic acid production in submerged culture, and the isolation of new fungal metabolites. Ernst B. Chain - Biography
She rushed the hair out of her face with a shaky hand, glancing around nervously in the pale gray light of dawn.
He's a skinny, nervous looking man with greasy black hair and bruises on his face.
Diarrhoea, nervousness, rapid pulse, insomnia, tremors and, sometimes, anginal pains indicate the dose is too high.
He took nervous infants of nervous mothers — babies who in standardized newborn testing were already jumpy themselves — and gave them to especially nurturing “supermoms.” The Science of Success
Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown's with powder, except for her lips which were bright orange.
The team of scientists from the U.S., the U.K., and Germany has uncovered novel quantitative organizational principles that underlie the network organizations of the human brain, high performance computer circuits, and the nervous system of the worm, known as nematode C. elegans. Cellular-news
Wendy isn't afraid of heights but was made a little nervous by Mark's antics and kept a firm hold of the kid.
His work has established the inhibitory role astrocytes can play in preventing central nervous system regeneration.
One would not imagine her WASP nervous system is sufficiently developed to register disquietude, but one would be mistaken. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Jim gulped nervously, before dropping the lighter on the fluids.
Beneath his confident exterior, he was desperately nervous.
He believes that by scaring a horse, such as sacking them out incorrectly, snubbing, or tying a scary object to the saddle to where the horse has no means of escape will lead to a nervous or spooky horse.
Nervous because she was due to play in two chukkas' time, Perdita refused even to acknowledge Daisy's presence.
I was too nervous to eat.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. Fran Lebowitz
I suffered a nervous breakdown. It was a traumatic experience.
Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
He was crashing the gears because he was so nervous.
It is said that they are in flight from an insupportable nervous strain, from which they find temporary assuagement only in sleep.
She looked nervous and excited. The Secret Garden
She was on the verge of nervous collapse.
The constrictor muscle is supplied by the parasympathetic nervous system, and the dilator by the sympathetic nervous system.
The axolotl is the champion of vertebrate regeneration, with the ability to replace whole limbs and even parts of its central nervous system," says Edward Scott, Ph. D., principal investigator for the grant and director of the McKnight Brain Institute's program in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. GEN News Highlights
The brain is a part of the nervous system of the human body.
The next year he again failed the exam and, according to some historians, had a nervous breakdown.
On the reef we saw nervous trunkfish, snappers and the odd barracuda.
One of the tiny bat-creatures chittered nervously from the darkness.
She's clearly nervous of talking so try texting. The Sun
That elderly gentleman was exceedingly on the jump , as nervous as a man well could be.
Surprisingly, she didn't feel nervous, or regretful about her actions. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
But we have been nervous about the UK economy overheating for some time now.
It's no wonder, since he's got seven harpish sisters who pick on him, leaving him a nervous, incommunicative mess.
The autonomic nervous system is divided into interacting and balancing systems, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and the visceral afferent system. SO STRESSED
Recording made him nervous and he gave up in mid-career, relenting for this album to play solo Bach in long stretches, without snippety editing or technical interference.
I walked nervously up the garden path towards the front door.
He nervously moistened his lips with his tongue.
Following consecutive defeats away at Tottenham and Wigan Athletic, Arsene Wenger's gaze has shifted from having the title firmly in his sights to nervously peering over his shoulder at the chasing pack. Football.co.uk news feed
Their split when she was just 19 left her with nervous exhaustion and prompted a short spell in a psychiatric ward.
Although he was very nervous, he put on a brave front.
The drug acts on the central nervous system.
She admitted to being nervous about delivering this particular keynote speech.
And there are stranger things than these, -- fragments of spiced and bituminized humanity to be shown to visitors who are not nervous, nor given to midnight terrors. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
I thought I would remain calm, but when I was confronted with/by the TV camera, I became very nervous.
The lady was evidently flattered by his offer and accepted in a weak and nervous voice as he kissed her hand.
The customary smirk returned to Trey's lips and he about-faced, coming closer to the nervous young man.
He is the go-to guy for ambitious politicians and nervous CEOs who want to become great communicators.
I realize I'm inviting much ridicule from my friends on the left, but I'm going to write this post anyway, and I'm going to leave the title intact - Why Twitter Matters & The Left Should Be Nervous. Why Twitter Matters & The Left Should Be Nervous
He was really desperately, desperately nervous and of course, he went on stage and the curtain went up and a ‘star was born’ can I say.
Thirteen nervous minutes into the contest Doran converted a free from 38 metres but Mulligan squared the match in the 16th minute after interplay between Smith and McGoldrick.
Hygeia herself would have fallen sick under such a regimen; and how much more this poor old nervous victim? Vanity Fair
The coachwhip is a nervous snake and may retreat into rocks or rodent burrows when threatened, but it is just as likely to approach an intruder hissing, striking, and possibly shaking its tail; it will bite if handled.
Wait till you had the bandage ready, and the whole reform opportunity would be suffocated by nervous nellies.
We packed up and moved across the country, excited and nervous. Christianity Today
I lost my voice for a second but quickly recovered, though still nervous.
The jacket comes off, the pieces are rearranged out of nervous habit. Times, Sunday Times
I was a little nervous all weekend about this morning's yank, but the broken bicuspid has come and gone without incident.
I was so nervous I got the giggles.
The greater nervous power planted in the female organ is demonstrated by the andromania to which some women are subject, and which makes them either The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Outwardly she seemed confident but in reality she felt extremely nervous.
Arguably, neurologists may do a great job of looking after the patient's nervous system but may be found lacking when dealing with associated illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension and the resulting polypharmacy.
In any restorative regime for the nervous system it is always wise to consider the potential for circulatory stimulants. The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism
Central nervous system tuberculosis includes tuberculous meningitis (the most common presentation), intracranial tuberculomas, and spinal tuberculous arachnoiditis.
The political literature of the nineteenth century was full of references to class, and in particular nervously raised the possibility of unchecked working-class political power. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
First it is one of the most powerful of all the herbal antispasmodics especially useful for relieving nervous tension throughout the mind and body.
Yohimbine may be nature's answer to the little blue pill. But this herbal Viagra isn't for those of nervous disposition.
Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled. The Portion of Labor
I'm nervous of large crowds.
At the start, it was dry, but the peloton was bunched together and very nervous.
Does your voice sound nervous, monotone, listless or bored? The Sun
Try to counter nervousness by getting right back to basics.
There are also supporting tissues in the nervous system, known collectively as glia; for example, Schwann cells surround the axons of peripheral neurons, and oligodendrocytes and astrocytes ensheath the axons of central neurons.
The utriculus opens broadly into the scala tympani, and the nervous elements of the cochlea are degenerate. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
It is also a central nervous system stimulant, which can aid in activities that require concentration.
Its effects on the nervous system include weakness, paralysis, and tingling in the hands and feet.
This is a tale of a nervous breakdown that may betoken a mental illness such as psychosis. 2009 April 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews
He moved his arms nervously and walked to and fro, beside a mountain of ferryboat luggage. COUP D'ETAT
She jittered nervously as she waited for it to show up.
The president was anxious, a nervous flyer, and he also liked to talk to his mother before and after takeoff and landing. Times, Sunday Times
I was too nervous to eat.
'I'm very nervous,' she admitted reluctantly.
I glance in the wing mirror of the car and check how I look, I'm so nervous and my hands are shaking as I push my fringe away from my eyes.
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
If one victim appeased his nervous fervor the trial was over but if his wrought-up feelings desired more his screechings continued until a second victim was secured. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
The president was anxious, a nervous flyer, and he also liked to talk to his mother before and after takeoff and landing. Times, Sunday Times
The roadway had become a flowing ribbon of silk, gemmed with yellow cat-like eyes that floated past wary and curious in their regard for him and his nervous horse. CHAPTER II
She was so nervous on her first day at the fashion house that she wore a prim grey school skirt. Times, Sunday Times
His Adam's apple bobbed nervously in his short, thick throat.
She grew increasingly nervous as the date of the audition drew closer.
He truly did love her, and deep down he knew his family would too, but he was still nervous.
It's perfectly normal to be nervous before a performance.

How To Use Nervous In A Sentence

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