Sentence examples for be keyed up from inspiring English sources

And remember that it can be good to be keyed up: the right amount of nervousness will enhance your performance.

After seeing you lying there like that, I'll be keyed up all day.

Serra was keyed up, buoyant.

He is keyed up, searingly focused.

He was keyed up, of course, but he talked in a refined way.

"The players were keyed up, the spectators agog over the drama that might unfold before the final curtain".

The game at Stamford Bridge, however, was no ordinary one and Dembélé, like many of the players, was keyed up to the point of combustion.

Driven by his supercharged ambition, they are keyed up and tenacious, surrounded by what he called, later, a "Goliath's armor of brazen metric".

Like Angel, Oswaldo is keyed up, lonely, and bewildered, it seems, by all that has gone wrong, not only in his world but in the world at large.

The tape was keyed up near the end of the film, where Toshiro Mifune confronts the bad guys who have made his career as a bodyguard so difficult.

Only the first, Marclay's, was allowed to appear without fanfare; all the others were keyed up by the continuity announcer, as though we might drop dead with shock if Radio 4 dared to weird up its schedule.