Agitated state

Usage examples of tizzy.

Other kids would be out playing ball or swimming, or just hanging out, but Tizzy always had a pencil in one hand and a piece of paper in the other.

We both did that, Tizzy and I, left home and neither of us set foot inside a church for years.

Died in a car wreck three or four years ago, but Tizzy painted him just the way he was back then when he was a little-bitty sprout.

Deidre Canfield to get to my sister, and then, with Tizzy gone, they get rid of Dee Canfield, too.

I was in such a tizzy that I was forgetting lovely-voice and how swell she looked and how nice a dish she would make across the breakfast table of mornings.

She had felt so dreadful leaving while Jane was still in such a tizzy about the prospect of Squire Nevins entering their little family.

The majority of the time, it meant nothing at all, just random chance in operation, but it had developed into something real often enough that the signal-spooks frequently went into a tizzy about it.

But there are also those unrepentant defenders that the good professor describes, and some of them went into the kind of tizzy that Grace Metalious knew all too well.

They were in a tizzy because sometime between last night and this morning your partner had taken away a great many papers, and neither of you had turned up for work.

So much so that when Luigi got in a tizzy about Giorgio Schiavoni escaping from Palermo, and above all sounding off to the Commissariat of Interplanetary Affairs, he sent Billy Antrim to set things right.

Somewhere in the early morning hours Tizzy stirred, just for a moment, she surfaced long enough to hear the backdoor screen.

Tizzy reached for the high windowsill but, before she could strain, the backdoor groaned for her then tore open.

Nottingham was gone, Tizzy thought she saw phantoms, or sly country boogers who slipped around like phantoms.

If just one glimpse of Herbie-a billion-year-old mummy-had thrown half the fanatics in five galaxies into a tizzy, what would the mummy's reconstructed likeness do?

Tizzy said finally, vexed by the hainting shade of her mother Laticia, or someone's poor mother, so black, so forlorn in shroud and veil.