Sentence examples for my uptight from inspiring English sources

On my first few kayaking trips, I would barely have digested my lunch before my uptight British ways would kick in and I'd start thinking about how best to beat the crowds at the train station.

Big net negative for society in my uptight opinion.

And off I scuttled, betraying my uptight comrades like a sexually advanced Judas.

The relaxed, unselfconscious viewer I was that night was a complete change from my usual uptight theatregoing self, who inevitably spends a good chunk of his time fuming about the audience member who forgot to turn his phone off, or the one spending an eternity unwrapping a sweet, or the one loudly whispering a running commentary to her neighbour.

My list of things I wanted to see had been 75% checked off in less than 48 hours and I did it all with meager planning - a direct contradiction to my normal uptight and nervous personality.

When I brought that home, my father got uptight and said something really sick, he said, "Can you imagine all our guys that died because of that?" I thought, This guy is a real asshole.

My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

"My children are so uptight.

In testament to how very chilled Formentera can make even uptight Brits, my partner and I soon followed suit – but then, Migjorn's 6km of white sand allows for personal space of scandalously decadent proportions.

I was beginning to feel uptight about my transience in the kitchen, just as someone at the table asked Rachel how she came up with all of these good things.

Lesbian: Um, no, that would make me very uncomfortable because I'm uptight about my whole life and make random rules about what's OK or not OK to do.