"nerve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His nerves stretched to the screaming point, with no release.
- Vance shouted as his own raw nerves stretched toward the breaking point.
- The computer had been off for half of that time, and her nerves had stretched to the screaming point.
- The abandoned town was not a pleasant sight for men with nerves already stretched tight.
- You got your finger on the trigger, nerves stretched tight, eyes moving.
- But just as his nerves were stretching to the point of going to look for the man, he reappeared, walking quickly toward them.
- What was it about him that made her throat dry up and her nerves stretch?
- "They still don't know if the nerves were stretched, torn or what," he said.
- Then suddenly I sat up, my nerves stretched taut to a stifled scream.
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