Sentence examples for Feeling uptight from inspiring English sources

If you tell a joke on yourself, you ease the tension in the room, especially when people are feeling uptight about work and their place in it.

But here, everyone in the box is not only waiting for the race to begin but also feeling uptight socially in some way.

Now that you know how to breathe deeply, use the technique as an immediate stress reducer any time you're feeling uptight or worried.

"I didn't want anything to feel uptight," he said.

You can learn a lot about a person without making them feel uptight," Zendell said.

In fact, cigarettes stopped the pang of nicotine withdrawal which made them feel uptight and irritable.

The formal protocols of classical music concerts that can make audiences feel uptight should be tossed out.

Should I ever start to feel uptight or nervous before a race, I breathe deep and all the way out.

("I feel uptight when I walk in the city/I feel so cold when I'm at home," goes the fidgety title track).

But then Majors's harp enters with a glistening sweep, and a song that felt uptight, hectic, and, in a dated way, "modern," melts into something delicate and almost naïvely uplifting.

I was beginning to feel uptight about my transience in the kitchen, just as someone at the table asked Rachel how she came up with all of these good things.