Sentence examples for quite on edge from inspiring English sources

All the same, she said, "Until she was settled into something else, I would be quite on edge -- more so than if I was unsettled myself".

At this point in the film, she already had been arrested following her participation in a protest against a government official, so everyone present in the room was feeling quite on edge.

Remember that playing games like these in large doses will cause you to get paranoid, and the often tense atmosphere will leave you quite on edge once you stop playing.

Jerusalem - city on edge.

"At the time, it would have been quite … well, not daring really, but quite on the edge.

But it's not quite on the cutting edge in terms of productivity.

As a soft-drink brand Sprite hasn't been quite on the cutting edge of rivals such as Mountain Dew, but the beverage has taken the leap to the always-on mobile community, with a mobile-based social networking site called "Sprite Yard".

For that to happen, developers will have to imbue robots with a more humanlike presence – what the Japanese call sonzaikan – rather than settle for the human, but not quite, qualities that can put people on edge in the presence of a moving, talking android.

They are quite literally "edge" species; on the widest, flattest floodplains, thousands of lechwes migrate distances of up to 80 km (50 miles) as the water rises and falls with the rainy and dry seasons.

Never quite up to her own exalted standards, she is often frustrated, dark-thinking, on edge.

The staff is well oiled if a little loose around the edges, not quite keeping on point.