Sentence examples for strung tight from inspiring English sources

He stepped out into the hallway, nerves strung tight, when the three justices began deliberating.

"A better man would've stayed at Center Point," he says, looking stockier in his prison blues, the muscles of his face strung tight.

Everyone seems up, strung tight, cognizant both of the serious emotions of the individual texts and the raucous artifice of the omnibus presentation.

That should give you a flavour of the poles of idealism and self-hate, erudition and depression, between which this show is strung tight – as tight as a heartstring.

But parental nerves are still strung tight.

If some of his English poems are less than great, it's partly because their lines, strung tight with meter and rhyme, occasionally condense into jingles.

Oy, Oy, Oy!" Malisse came into the match strung tighter than his rackets, none of which, to hear him talk afterward, had the right tension.

Bradley, a 24-year-old midfielder, is strung tighter than a piano wire and can be too sensitive for his own good — hardly an ideal combination when the favoritism accusations were in full voice.

This is a tension strung so tight it should snap.

Still, with austerity keeping public purse strings tight, there is little alternative, he said.

With purse strings tight everywhere, financing has become a major concern.