lose nerve
Example Sentences
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With 1.4 billion fans expecting nothing less than victory each match - this pressure can make the best players jelly-kneed, drop their focus, or as seems the more likely, lose nerve in crunch situations.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2023
Studies show Zolgensma can stop infants and toddlers from continuing to lose nerve cells that control muscle movement, preventing further decline, but it cannot restore motor or muscle function that older children have already lost.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
They lost confidence in him, and he, feeling increasingly embattled, seemed to lose nerve in his ability to achieve reform, acting more and more on the defensive.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2016
People fall in and out with each other, compromise themselves, fail to live up to their best aspirations, lose nerve and will.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2013
Our hostess, the grim woman of whom I spoke, was the first to lose nerve, and during the day, when I was away, would come and retail some of the horrors she herself had witnessed.
From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Reed, Talbot Baines
