Nerve Wracking

Word NERVE WRACKING
Character 14
Hyphenation nerve-wracking
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Nerve Wracking"

What do we mean by nerve wracking?

Intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves

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The word "nerve-wracking" in example sentences

Recorded with a Go Pro camera mounted to his head, you hear what he calls the nerve-wracking beep of the Geiger counter checking his radiation exposure as he wound his way with work crews through the dark tunnels and rooms of the reactor. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Mabius keeps a straight face at Posey's unpredictable, sometimes nerve-wracking performance. ❋ Marshall Fine (2012)

The saucer descending toward the connectors on the stardrive section should have been a reassuring sight, but watching the immense gray-blue surface approach the gaping hole in the ceiling was more nerve-wracking than Nog had expected, especially as it was shuddering and bouncing unpredictably. ❋ David A. McIntee (2011)

The drive back was a bit nerve-wracking, no doubt, but he made it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After thirteen nerve-wracking days filled with wild rumors that the Japanese had murdered Wainwright, the OSS team flashed the news that they had plucked Skinny from the POW camp at Hsian and were bringing him back to safety. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

What makes his arrest especially nerve-wracking for Murdoch, his pretty wife Wendi Deng who courageously didn't allow his multi-billionaire status preclude her falling in love with a married man 38 years her senior and their News Corp. cronies is the fact that shortly after the activities that Desborough was arrested for took place in England, Desborough moved to Los Angeles to become US Editor for that same Murdoch newspaper. ❋ Martin Lewis (2011)

Forcing a one-game showdown with the Detroit Tigers before their Homer-hankie waving Metrodome fans, it took four-and-a-half hours and twelve nerve-wracking innings for the Twins to emerge victorious. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)

Playing in front of the crowd isn't the nerve-wracking bit, it doesn't really bother me how many people are there. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It includes music and a light show beaming an image of one of Hungary's best known exports, the nerve-wracking Rubik's Cube puzzle. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Give these guys credit -- predicting elections is a nerve-wracking and difficult business. ❋ Chris Cillizza (2010)

As we make this appeal, we brace ourselves for another round of nerve-wracking explosives being detonated above our homes in the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

And anything that makes the Redskins even a little better makes life for a Southwestern Giants fan a little more nerve-wracking ... ❋ Grrm (2010)

Even on a bike, it was a bit nerve-wracking to keep tabs my kid on his bike amongst a sea of inexperienced (or careless) adult riders who would swerve without warning or checking over their shoulders in their blind spots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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