Sentence examples for are uptight from inspiring English sources

If you are uptight, let the children meddle.

"American girls are very liberated, but the American men are uptight," he said.

Women are shamed, told they are uptight, nasty, bitter, can't take a joke, are too sensitive.

Their nearest neighbors are uptight, self-righteous hippies and coarse rogues.

They don't know if they are uptight or if they are nervous.

Both are uptight and repressed, and need an impulsive, outspoken woman to bring them out of themselves.

Maybe it's uptight guys from upstate NY struggling against their own latent uptightness?

Sober, I'm uptight.

"Don't be uptight".

"You can't be uptight.

The atmosphere was uptight, threatening.