Sentence examples for nervous animals from inspiring English sources

The opera's postbag was stuffed with anguished letters about the exploited women in the dance before the golden calf, and the nervous animals on a slope made slippery with "the blood of sacrifice".

Maybe you're eating too much chicken, which are nervous animals.

"I just have to tell you from personal experience," said Reeves, "having had a great-uncle with a chicken farm, chickens are spectacularly nervous animals.

During the 25-h BBA, high Nervous animals retreat from others and outside disturbances, are hesitant to venture into new situations, and their fearfulness and timidity causes them to be easily alarmed (Golub et al. 2009).

Previously, the BBA program has revealed that when confronted by a "human intruder," high Nervous animals have higher frequencies of fear grimaces, threats, and barks and spend less time near the intruder (Capitanio et al. 2011).

Nervous animals are more likely to be aggressive.

I looked at Stephanie carefully; I saw in her the eyes of a nervous animal.

Their first exchange, a query about a quaking duck named Rosa, ended up being a typographical error rather than a nervous animal.

You take a high-strung, nervous animal like the Arab horse, and you put some flags out on the pasture, the Arab's going to be the first animal to walk up and approach those flags.

He'd been hopeful about the placement, and, when I saw him a few days after things fell through, I found him pacing around his cinder-block dormitory like a nervous animal.

"Melati can be a very nervous animal and we didn't want to risk putting her on edge by changing her surroundings or routines, in case she abandoned or attacked the cub.