Sentence examples for grow edgy from inspiring English sources

I'd grow edgy after slowly walking through my third rustic village.

We try putting phones into cars, but it's no use; we grow edgier & edgier, sitting at 80 mph.

The father grew edgy and depressed.

The United States had defeated Nigeria by 7-1 in the 1999 World Cup as the match grew edgy and scabrous.

His presence would have made it harder to keep the nationalists at bay, said a relieved Ukrainian diplomat.Relations between the two neighbors have grown edgy.

As the crew of the shuttle Discovery prepares to return to Earth tomorrow, a generation of Americans that has lived through two shuttle disasters is growing edgy.

As the city's mood grew edgy on Thursday after a rash of bomb threats, Wanda Farrington stood outside her office building on Park Avenue after being evacuated.

Roger Schmidt, the Leverkusen manager, got his tactics spot-on; Tottenham gasped for breath and by the midway point of the first half the home fans had grown edgy.

Venture capitalists, recently lionized as catalysts of technological advancement and economic productivity, are typically reluctant to concede that their investors have grown edgy as their portfolio values have shrunk.

Hamas and others in the region, she said, had "learned and understood" that Israel would not countenance such continuous violation of its borders and the targeting of its civilians.But Israel's left, which at first gave unusually solid support to the Gaza operation, is growing edgy as the extent of the carnage is conveyed in Israel's media.

Baillieu and the Heath players shaped its gradually building and subsiding climaxes convincingly, and twice captured the feeling of time slowing down that Elgar writes into the music; but in the most frenzied moments the string tone grew edgy, and the performance smoothed out some of the work's mercurial energy.