Sentence examples for worried themselves from inspiring English sources

They called themselves "the modernisers" and they worried themselves sick.

FOR the past half-century, demographers have worried themselves sick about the rapid growth in the world population, which reached 6 billion in 1999.

Those who worked at Apple worried themselves into excellence at the thought of disappointing him and, because he was right so many times, people in the larger media and tech world scrambled to keep up.

In the anxiety specialty clinic where I work, I see many men who have worried themselves into a depression.

"Even when England do play well they're still capable of worrying themselves into a defeat.

'They will be worrying themselves silly and will become physically ill.

Musical neophytes worry themselves into a state of stagefright because they know a bad performance can mean their job.

'This is anecdotal still, but there are some teenagers who worry themselves sick about it, so that it is almost a phobia.

One concerns "helicopter parents" (largely at the top of the social scale), who hover over their children's lives, worrying themselves sick, depriving their offspring of independence and doing far more for them than is actually beneficial.

While her arrival on Radio 3 may be frowned upon as "populist" in some quarters, it seems listeners need not worry themselves about any potential skeletons in the cupboard.

Before worrying themselves sick, people should realize that the likelihood of a biological attack by terrorists is remote, given the technical difficulties of acquiring and spreading the disease organisms.