Sentence examples for I nerved myself from inspiring English sources

I nerved myself up and said to Huong, "Why can't you quit this sex work so we can be together?" Her eyes gleamed, fastened on me.

Less a teen-age Rangerphile than an arachnophobe encountering a tarantula, I nerved myself to walk over to where Lindsay sat and confronted him, boy to man.

There are a lot worse things in life.' And I get on my own nerves when I hear myself saying that.

After missing a night of sleep and mulling over the themes, mysteries, and possibilities of this film, I asked myself, "Which nerve has this struck?" My experience of that film went deeper than just the film.

That Alberto Gonzales, who approved torture, politicized the Department of Justice, and lied to Congress about warrantless wiretapping and pre-war intelligence had the nerve to claim: "I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror".

I shared their nerves, though comforted myself with the positive response I received when I took to the stage at Glastonbury to rail against injustice and nuclear weapons in 2013.

"The good news is I got myself in contention, I felt the nerves.

I brace myself for the sound of her voice, all of my nerve endings like cats ready to pounce.

(Good-oh, I remember thinking when I saw it. Now, though, I catch myself checking dates and wondering about the state of her pelvic nerve).

"But open our mouths, deep down between tears, nerves, and gristle, we are bombs". As I paged through the book, I felt myself heave sighs.

At 14, I fancied myself as an equine dentist; two years previously I'd tested my parents' nerve touting a career as a coroner about family parties.