Sentence examples for some uptight from inspiring English sources

Mr. Amrine tells of irrational travel bans spreading well beyond the capital, with some uptight schools lately forbidding students to visit Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts or even a pumpkin patch in suburban Maryland.

Gee, I wonder if this is going to make it onto cable news channels in segments where some uptight lady from some civic organization who's never played the game talks about how video games are bad for kids.

Presumably you wouldn't skim other people's cards and only yours and you're obviously going to meet some uptight merchants who want to see the original card so I suspect the use case will be limited to swiping at unattended kiosks or ATMs.

Over 50 years later, there's still some uptight critic calling him a "willfully idiotic genius" for such daring behavior.

Instead of approaching the subject of ST: TNG like some uptight PR team, they approach it as friendly and honest fans.

I mean, some uptight, snobby, larny [slang for "snob"] types will go to the dentist, but I personally don't like to waste money.

In the case of More London – a series of sterile glass blocks set amid some rather uptight landscaping on the South Bank – the very name is a deliberate deception.

Looks like instead there are some very uptight Death Grips fans out there with more money than they need.

Why is it that a benign euphoria-inducer like marijuana, enjoyed and exalted by luminaries such as Carl Sagan and extraordinary intellects like Richard Feynman, still make some people uptight?

But I remember the way she talked to us and how she acted like a human being, rather than some stuffy uptight "adult".

What are you, some kind of uptight feminist?