Sentence examples for increasingly on edge from inspiring English sources

A journey through these borderlands reveals a region increasingly on edge.

Possible militant incursions into Tajikistan have put the government here increasingly on edge.

Possible militant incursions into Tajikistan have put the Tajik government increasingly on edge.

NAIROBI, Kenya — A second Kenyan opposition lawmaker was shot dead on Thursday, and riots immediately exploded in opposition strongholds, putting the country increasingly on edge.

That ease in disappearing into a role may be precisely what makes her so comfortable to watch, even when she is playing characters who are irritating or, in the case of "Bridesmaids," increasingly on edge.

The attack occurred in a patch of Brooklyn that is increasingly on edge after a string of 12 sexual assaults since March that the police believe may be connected.

Despite the cheerful air that Netanyahu tried to project during his meeting with Trump, those who know him say that he is increasingly rattled, on edge, and isolated.

Jerusalem - city on edge.

You're always on edge.

With their mixed Sunni and Shia populations and legacy of civil strife, both Lebanon and Iraq are increasingly on a knife-edge.

Not long after 9/11, when New York, though increasingly safe from crime, was still on edge, a real-estate tycoon told me that he had made a fortune investing in Manhattan properties since the seventies (when the city seemed doomed), and was optimistic that New York would continue to thrive, for a simple reason: the median age of first children kept going up.