"nerve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I could see then that what I had taken for energy was a kind of drawn and dangerous tightness, nerves and sinews twanging like bowstrings.
- They had gone a kilometer inward when nerves twanged and weapons snapped to aim.
- Again it seemed to take ages and the tension increased until our nerves fairly twanged.
- Meanwhile, Edelston's nerves were twanging dangerously, and he feared they would snap at any moment if the matter at hand was not addressed promptly.
- The innkeeper's nerves had been twanging like the strings of a badly tuned lyre ever since the sun had been high.
- Still breathing hard while his nerves twanged with excitement, he started the motor.
- They saved his eyes for last pulling them out slowly until the optic nerves twanged like slim metal cables and finally broke loose.
- His nerves were twanging as it was.
- My nerves were twanging like a bass guitar.
- I said, every nerve in my body twanging from the shock.
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