High-____ (nervous)

Usage examples of strung.

There were the freeways and autostradas and autobahns, strung in an all-enclosing net across the faces of the continents.

Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.

He was so tightly strung, Brat thought, that if you plucked him with a finger he would twang.

Farther up, his muscles were tightly strung, and she sank her teeth gently into his biceps, her fingers brushing the soft hair beneath his arm.

Then Buri struck, falling on them from the east, smashing into their strung out line like an avalanche of iron.

The troops were strung out along almost a full kilometer route, each maniple isolated from the others in the dripping-white blanket that lay across the valley.

Their genetic code had been based on triplet base sequences strung on a DNA double helix, reinforcing the modified HoyleWickramasinghe panspermia hypothesis that all life in the Solar System, including the long-extinct Martian microflora, had a common ancestor.

They spoke, too, of the Multifold, but that equally tenuous entity was said to be strung like a veil among the crush of stars and radiant clouds.

I told her how the fear of her danger palsied my exertions, how the knowledge of her safety strung my nerves to endurance.

Her nerves already strung taut from the incident with Parcher, and her composure nearly shattered by her discovery of Lucas and Cora Lee together in the darkness, Tucker now experienced an inner explosion that left her helpless and numb in the face of this final assault on her emotions.

Rue saw that the radian draws had been reconfigured, strung away from two of the six parse tubes to feed power to the remaining four.

Her bare feet were embraced in cool grass strung silver with dew, the flesh gone pearlescent and strange.

The wagons were lightened, the food, the tents, the supplies drawn across on strung ropes, then the carts laboriously lashed together and planked over as makeshift bridges.

She put aside her cloak to give freedom to her arms, strung her bow, and held her head high as might a pronghorn buck on herd sentry, listening.

But overhead, a thousand thousand stars glittered like tiny jewels strung on garlands in the heavens-a spectacular sight, as Quarle had promised.