nerve-racking

Example Sentences

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Others wonder whether they shouldn’t be sent straight back to their home countries, which they have just left under nerve-racking duress.

From Scientific American

For Kroll, directing Brooks led to a number of “nerve-racking and titillating” sessions.

From Los Angeles Times

"When I first started competing in pageants, I found them quite nerve-racking but once I did my first swimsuit round my whole mindset just changed," she says.

From BBC

"It's really nerve-racking, as if a plane was falling on your head."

From Reuters

It was nerve-racking, like, how will people react?

From Los Angeles Times