Sentence examples for getting up the nerve from inspiring English sources

"Across the Rooftops" is a six-page, single-scene wonder centered on a man getting up the nerve to kiss a woman he's spent the evening with.

I proposed to her 20 minutes after we met, having spent 19 minutes getting up the nerve.

In the summer, Ashley spends nearly every evening on those steps, watching her friends attempt skateboard tricks and occasionally getting up the nerve to try one herself.

"I was getting up the nerve to introduce myself, and in that time he finished his drink and left," she said.

Nothing worse than being a PHD student at a big conference, getting up the nerve to ask the question, and then getting the icy stare of "that's so obvious".

Which three introverts, living or dead, would you most like see at a cocktail party (before heading home without getting up the nerve to say hello) and why? Steve Martin: I think he is one of the most interesting, brilliant, and hilarious people.

"The first time you get up the nerve to give somebody the gears he throws himself under a train".

"The first time you get up the nerve to give somebody the gears, he throws himself under a train.

Five: he tried bringing a hair dryer into the tub with him, but it was suicide-proof, apparently — it turned itself off, leaving Adam shivering, the water having gone cold while he'd got up the nerve.

I never got up the nerve up to hit the layups — graffiti's Genuine City of Z — but these two had gone there repeatedly, capturing the works we saw only once or twice before they were "buffed" out or painted over.

So sling it back, suck it down, and stare into space as you get up the nerve to talk to that guy or girl someone brought to the barbecue today and seems to be from out of town and may or may not have smiled at you at some point during the past three hours while grabbing a hamburger.