Sentence examples for feeling skittish from inspiring English sources

This is probably because they guzzle it on an empty stomach having just arrived at a party, feeling skittish.

Both noted that technology investors had been feeling skittish and said that they essentially jumped on an excuse to unload Oracle shares.

Critics, bloggers and people in suits gathered in a large antechamber, sipping wine and feeling skittish yet solemn, like cardinals who had been invited to inspect a newly discovered splinter of St Francis's femur.

August 2011: Bank of America investment of $5 billion | With many investors feeling skittish about big banks, Berkshire announced plans to invest $5 billion in Bank of America, a vote of confidence in the company, which was struggling under the weight of its mortgage problems.

Real estate professionals say that many people have the money and desire to buy, but they are waiting on the sidelines, feeling skittish about the economy and confused by housing reports that take the temperature of the nation rather than of individual markets.

This pinball effect is leaving many investors feeling skittish about where to put their money.

GUARDIAN European Banks Awash in Uncertainty  |  European banks are feeling increasingly skittish about lending to one another.

An amiable grandfather named Gene Rosen, who agreed to fifteen interviews, noticed himself feeling increasingly skittish and taut with each interview.

"In these times where people are feeling more skittish about investing, entire sectors have become unfundable," he said.

The song feels almost too changeable, too skittish of feeling, to really fit one moment, a single mood, but as a snapshot of everything to come or that has been in the game, it's perfect.

Reflecting the skittish feelings about the econony, attendance, initially estimated at 400, was actually closer to 250; there were 220 people at the opening dinner on Thursday.