worked up

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of persons) excessively affected by emotion
    he would become emotional over nothing at all
    she was worked up about all the noise
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How To Use worked up In A Sentence

  • The rest of the disc isn't as sonically edgy, but the sounds and settings that Bowie & Ronson worked up for each are strikingly appropriate.
  • It was kind of hard to get too worked up about it when the TV news was busy erroneously reporting that the space shuttle was traveling "nearly 18 times the speed of light" when it went boom.
  • Three men worked up there making spectroscopic and interferometric studies of airglow and auroral processes in the upper atmosphere. Terra Incognita
  • The new traffic scheme worked up to a point, but it had its problems.
  • In some cases, such as the practical session on conductus, there is only a tantalisingly brief report, and, clearly, some interesting items were being worked up for presentation elsewhere.
  • We need to stop allowing these people who have soapboxes to put whatever conspiratory plotline they saw on TV show in our heads and making baseless accusations just to get us worked up amongst ourselves. Avlon: Partisan politics ought to end at the water’s edge
  • Now the average man on the street is not going to get worked up over what happens to hedge funds.
  • I get very worked up about the way women are stereotyped in a lot of mainstream films.
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  • His erratic performance at least gave fans something to get worked up about - as there was little else happening. The Sun
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