Sentence examples for perpetually on edge from inspiring English sources

I was perpetually on edge.

Wall Street seemed perpetually on edge.

You also wonder whether the home coach, Luis Enrique – who looks perpetually on edge, tetchy, ready to blow – is equal to the pressure to win this trophy.

Chinese officials charged with ensuring security, lavishly financed and permitted to operate above the law, have remained perpetually on edge, employing state-of-the-art surveillance, technologically sophisticated censorship, new crime-fighting tools, as well as proactive efforts to resolve labor and land disputes, all to prevent any organized or sustained resistance to single-party rule.

Measures of their job success are deliberately fuzzy in order to keep them perpetually on edge.

It had all been a ruse by organized crime groups taking advantage of a population perpetually on edge.

It leaves one perpetually on the edge of one's seat worrying that hearts are actually in hands or that everyone is constantly about to die or be killed.

In the moment, foundations shook — not only of buildings, but of people who have felt shaken too often, people always on edge, perpetually living the day after.

She feels perpetually on the edge of peril — one car breakdown away from disaster.

Jerusalem - city on edge.

We live perpetually on the edge of chaos.