NERVE in a Sentence
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198 example sentences for NERVE, such as:
1. You have a lot of nerve.
2. The nerve runs from the eye to the brain.
3. The nerves carry these signals to the brain.
4. He had the nerve to ask me to prove who I was.
5. My office is the nerve centre of the operation.
2. The nerve runs from the eye to the brain.
3. The nerves carry these signals to the brain.
4. He had the nerve to ask me to prove who I was.
5. My office is the nerve centre of the operation.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of NERVE
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nerve
n. impudent aggressiveness
n. the courage to carry on
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1 To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.
2 In this atmosphere, as nerve straining as watching a slow fuse burn toward a barrel of gunpowder, Scarlett came rapidly back to strength.
3 He rose, squaring his shoulders aggressively, and stepped toward her with a reddening brow; but she held her footing, though every nerve tore at her to retreat as he advanced.
4 Lily's nature was incapable of such renewal: she could feel other demands only through her own, and no pain was long vivid which did not press on an answering nerve.
5 She felt so profoundly tired that she thought she must fall asleep at once; but as soon as she had lain down every nerve started once more into separate wakefulness.
6 By this time there wasn't a nerve in me that hadn't been twisted.
7 His companion explained the situation, and the lawyer took the paper and began to read it, while Jurgis stood clutching the desk with knotted hands, trembling in every nerve.
8 Jurgis had not known this, or he would have swallowed the stuff in desperation; as it was, every nerve of him was a-quiver with shame and rage.
9 His nerve almost failed him now, but he clenched his hands.
10 His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil.
11 He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf.
12 "Well, he was a reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he," said he finally in a little awestruck voice.
13 Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
14 What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
15 Tom had been lying two days since the fatal night, not suffering, for every nerve of suffering was blunted and destroyed.
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 And, she noted, the Pentagon was still investigating troop exposure to nerve gas before and during the ground war.
2 The nerve runs from the eye to the brain.
3 Messages travel along the spine from the nerve endings to the brain.
4 The message travels along the nerve to the brain.
5 A sensitive nerve in a tooth can cause great pain.
6 It takes a lot of nerve to be a bomb disposal expert.
7 Sales of nerve gas antidotes increased dramatically before the war.
8 The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
9 You have a lot of nerve.
10 My office is the nerve centre of the operation.
11 He had the nerve to ask me to prove who I was.
12 It takes a lot of nerve to report a colleague for sexual harassment.
13 I don't have the nerve to sing in front of people.
14 Cutting the nerves to the stomach does not affect hunger.
15 The nerves carry these signals to the brain.