Sentence examples for a sore nerve from inspiring English sources

For a composer who longed to write weightier operas, this charge no doubt touched a sore nerve.

Mercedes reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein replaced Hamilton as the Briton's team-mate Nico Rosberg is nursing a sore nerve in his neck, which doctors have told him to rest.

He still touches a sore nerve.

Despite his quick retreat, the idea of prayers recited in Arabic within walls that for centuries echoed with Latin hit a sore nerve among French conservatives, whose concerns about Islam have mounted since Muslim extremists gunned down 17 people in Paris last January in attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher.

Yet the main reason us Brits have taken umbrage is because this astute diplomat has actually hit a rather sore nerve.

Wakefield, 43, has been out since July 18 with a sore back and a nerve irritation in his left calf.

The Dodgers started the day by placing Matt Kemp on the disabled list and shelving A.J. Ellis with a sore side amid growing concern over nerve problems in the pitching hand of Josh Beckett.

We all walk around in our personally styled comfort zones, but when push comes to shove, everyone has a limit — a sore point where diversity gets on our nerves.

"St George has been knocked off his 'orse!" Thomson was ruled out of the last Test with a sore shoulder and Lillee pulled up lame with a trapped nerve in a foot after six overs.

Sure enough, after visiting a doctor in mid-December for a sore neck, he learned that a tumor was pressing on his nerves.

White missed two games with a pinched nerve in his neck... Right wing TURNER STEVENSON sat out his second consecutive game with a sore right knee.