Nerve

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"Nerve" in a Sentence (43 examples)

You have a lot of nerve!

What a nerve!

You've got a nerve to say such a thing!

His nerve failed him at the last moment.

I haven't got the nerve to ask you for a loan.

You have a lot of nerve.

She just can't have the nerve to lift it up now!

My husband damaged a nerve in his neck.

Are you going to remove the nerve?

I had the nerve removed from my tooth.

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The nerves can be seen through the skin.

Like her I go; I cannot stay; ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind, A weight of nerves without a mind, And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]

Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.

He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.

He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her.

“Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”

You got a lot of nerve / To say you are my friend / When I was down / You just stood there grinning

A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.

Southgate's side kept their nerve and discipline in the unsettling, intimidating surroundings of Budapest, with the behaviour of Hungary's fans leaving much to be desired, to turn up the heat and punish their opponents ruthlessly once they had gone ahead.

The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories

He led me on to mightiest deeds, / Above the nerve of mortal arm.

All these rationalizations for asinine behavior are getting on my nerves.

His nerves could no longer handle the worry.

Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test; she was a bundle of nerves.

Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me

The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.

Come on; obey: / Thy nerves are in their infancy again, / And have no vigour in them.

Whilst thus their fury rages at the bay, My sword our cables cut, I call'd to weigh, And charg'd my men, as they from fate would fly, Each nerve to strain, each bending oar to ply.

May their example nerve us to face the enemy.

The yellow-bearded Mailey, the old warrior, scarred with many combats and eager for more, stood beside his wife, the gentle squire who bore his weapons and nerved his arm.

And how I strained my ears, and nerved my hands and limbs, beginning to twitch with convulsive movements, which I feared might betray me!

The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.

The shock nerved her, and she ran aimlessly till she fell, and for a time lay, but making a barrier of her arms, that the child should not be crushed.

She has been trying everything (wedge pads, bar shoes, etc.) and he is still dead lame. Someone has suggested nerving him, which (I believe - correct me if I am wrong!) involves cutting the main nerve in his foot so he can be ridden without pain.

You can't nerve a hoof and I didn't realize that the cannon bone where the nerving takes place is not part of the leg.

Her instructor was trying to convince me that her horse's tail "needed" to be nerved.

I guess, my previous message never came in the net..so again: (hope, i don't nerve anyone) We want to combine different LAN's via fiberoptic cable (Monomode) to the Internet.

No way was I assured, but after that the doctor refused to answer anymore questions. Instead, he wouldn’t stop nerving me to give him a guided tour of the berserker.

Do not nerve others: Of course it helps to talk to others. But just when you've got a lot of information, that can be annoying.

Mathias slowly leads his hand down to the holster... yeah, cool steel... his fingers wrap around the grip of his Smith & Wesson's, dragging it out, aiming and... In other words: Stop nerving, damiac14!

use the extrapolar solution, don't nerve.

Speaking of Camden, I pulled off I-676 once to clean my windshield on the side of some surface street before turning around to shoot the Ben Franklin Bridge Westbound and I must say I was a bit nervous knowing the reputation, and I don't "nerve" easily.

Broadband Quality :) Stop nerving!!!

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