nerve-racking
Example Sentences
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“It’s been scary at times, it’s been nerve-racking at times. … I just figure I’m in the same boat everybody else is in.”
From Los Angeles Times
For 10 nerve-racking hours, Machado and two people helping her escape hit 10 military checkpoints, avoiding capture each time, before she reached the coast by midnight, said a person close to the operation.
Watching him use this technology was both thrilling and a little nerve-racking.
Harmonizing for Plant, is “one of the most nerve-racking and evidentially vulnerable parts of anything that I’ve ever done,” he admits.
From Los Angeles Times
His silence was nerve-racking, for no one knew whether to prepare for an explosion or a celebration.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
