Sentence examples for being uptight from inspiring English sources
"They haven't been uptight about it, and there's no sense of even being uptight even now.
But the service is formal without being uptight, and the whole operation even seems to have a sense of humor.
But being uptight is not as threatening as being a chauvinist, so her battles seem small and insignificant.
THE consensus is that Germans first stopped being uptight about their flag in 2006, when the country hosted the football World Cup.
Sometimes I would be fighting back tears but out of a fear of being uptight, I kept trying and trying and trying.
In many ways Waiheke is a microcosm of New Zealand itself – blessed by nature, serving up seriously good food and wine, and populated by happy, welcoming people who are so laid-back they laugh at Australians for being uptight.
Maybe it's uptight guys from upstate NY struggling against their own latent uptightness?
The atmosphere was uptight, threatening.
