trigger-happy

Example Sentences

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The action is punctuated by booming sound effects — canned applause, the “wah-wah” of a sad trombone and a hyperactive electronic buzzer, among them — coming from a trigger-happy soundboard operator behind the coffee counter.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Many of those stocks soon after clawed back much of their losses, leaving some investors to describe the market as trigger-happy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Don’t get trigger-happy and sell because of headlines.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

Vance was also, in effect, portraying the American military personnel who sank the boats as trigger-happy, prone to mistake a fishing boat for a drug vessel and feeling guiltless about doing so.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2025

The man in charge saw Gilgamesh on the alarm screens and got trigger-happy.

From The Lost Kafoozalum by Ashwell, Pauline