Sentence examples for worry themselves from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Bachelder's protagonists worry themselves sick over cartoon women and shoes and which football player to impersonate during the reënactment of a play that will last, start to finish, less than a minute.

"At a time like this, it is just unacceptable to have millions of parents worry themselves sick about how they're going to get health care for their children," Mr. Gore said.

And I think this is what [Ralph Waldo] Emerson meant when he said: "O, see how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there, some great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality". And this becomes a point of balance when you can forget yourself into immortality.

Perhaps they worried themselves into defeat.

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

"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.

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