wrought up
Example Sentences
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He was being accused of some heinous acts by some late comers when he got emotional and wrought up about those things being leveled against him.
From Fox News • Oct. 4, 2018
I hear you, I assured him, as you do with folks who are wrought up and close to going off the deep end, and you’re hoping to avoid a scene.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015
But Mandelstam was too wrought up to be wary.
From Time Magazine Archive
His 75 listeners, full of fried chicken and Pepsi-Cola, were still wrought up about the issue of their press and their race.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the pool, firesnakes shot away from me in all directions, bristling, hissing, mysteriously wrought up.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
