overstrung
Example Sentences
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Yes, overstrung, gaudily painted, honky tonk joannas for passersby to hammer out jazz standards on, which – naturally – many appeared to be able to do.
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2016
Both teams were overstrung, playing crazily in their eagerness to win.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension�and the happy are not overstrung.
From Time Magazine Archive
His nerves must have been overstrung, for he started violently, and came within an ace of dropping both candle-stick and match.
From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Boothby, Guy Newell
These visions recurred at frequent intervals, to the intense distress of the family, who could not but ascribe them to the overstrung imagination of Mdlle. de G�reaux.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
