Sentence examples for we're uptight from inspiring English sources

"I don't sense that we're uptight.

Hypnotherapy sessions, in which descriptions of what happens to the intestines when we're uptight are given, along with methods of coping, are useful.

The villa's owners were fussy yuppies from Milan who had a long, scolding list of house rules yet, when we inquired why the electricity went out every day from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M., they shrugged and told us we were uptight Americans.

The villa's owners were fussy yuppies from Milan who had a long, scolding list of house rules — yet, when we inquired why the electricity went out every day from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M., they shrugged and told us we were uptight Americans.

So why are we being uptight about our needs?

She's, shall we say, she's uptight".

"We shouldn't be uptight about music," she said.

Jason Sudeikis plays Henry, an architect who we're told is uptight.

We're too uptight about clothes, man.

I don't get it, but then I was raised a Catholic and we're pretty uptight about sex.

I mean, we're so uptight and so politically correct now you apologize for saying lives matter?" To reply with "all lives matter" is to suggest there's no specific problem of police abuse targeted at black Americans.