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How to use the word nerves in a Sentence?

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I tend not to express my feelings about Stephen because I know it’s just going to make me upset, i miss him yelling at me when I got on his nerves. I miss spending time with him. Just going grocery shopping was enough.

Stephanie Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Always playing Andy is very tough, he knows very well how to play a grand slam match. I am happy with how I handled the nerves and tension through the match, to play good tennis. I am very happy with the win.

Bautista Agut

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're playing for the tournament and also world No. 1, of course, there will be nerves and we will both feel it.

Defeat Ruud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The news is not good, salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.

Andrew Wylie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Care, caution, preparation, nerves of steel!.

Nicolás Maduro

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There was happiness. There were moments of uncertainty — ‘Am I going to play with the rain today?’ — and patience, the jittery nerves of, ‘Ooh, I’m about to play. I'm about to walk out on the court.'.

Magda Linette

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Thankfully, I think having been( in close out games) six times, been in a lot of different closeout type of opportunities, you just understand what the nerves are like.

Steph Curry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Staying the course may be hard on your nerves, but it can be healthiest for your portfolio.

Rob Williams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s crazy. It’s nuts, it was a true dream come true — it was our true selves out there. We didn’t let our nerves get the best of us. Made one technical error on the jump on my part. Everything else we did was solid.

Brandon Frazier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the first period, I was a little nervous, but when I stopped a couple of shots the nerves go out.

Igor Shesterkin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I eat, breath and sleep football, to be in this situation, I'm just excited about it. There's no fear, there's no nerves about playing at a high level, you've just got to go out there and execute the plays and be yourself. I cherish the moment and I'm excited for it.

Arizona Cardinals

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s definitely been a long time, especially, you know, with the nerves or excitement or whatever you may want to call it, just of the anticipation of coming down here, we're excited to get down here and play Alabama and show not only ourselves, but everyone in the country, what we can do against a top team.

Desmond Ridder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A war hero and among the greatest of the Greatest Generation, and to me, he was also a friend whom I could look to for trusted guidance, or a humorous line at just the right moment to settle frayed nerves. I will miss my friend. But I am grateful for the times we shared, and for the friendship Jill and I and our family have built with Liddy and the entire Dole family.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Thinking about nerves in a positive light like this just helps me go into a game — or any other kind of performance — with more confidence, a lot of coaches will conflate nervousness with fear or lack of preparation, but I think that kind of mentality can really drag your confidence down. When you view nerves as a natural thing and as a good thing, it helps you maintain your confidence.

Dane Kapler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love being in contention, I love feeling the nerves, so it was fun today. I enjoyed it, even though it might not have looked like it, i knew Sam was ahead of me and I had to make a couple and just didn’t, but I will another time.

Cameron Young

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was pretty emotional all day, i wanted to prove to everyone I belong here. There were nerves in the beginning but after that I was able to concentrate.

Reiver Sanmartin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Seeing my family in the crowd and hearing them gave me a little sense of comfort, and what I needed to hear and see to calm my nerves a little bit.

Matthew Centrowitz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Could it also be nerves ? Maybe.

Brittney Walters

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Talking to them and knowing their stories and being so close to them has definitely helped me and like, eased my nerves a little bit, but of course, it's still scary because it's unknown.

Nina Rawlings

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This meant everything to me, it’s been so long since we’ve had a full crowd in there, I swear to God it felt like a playoff game at the start of the game, the nerves I had, the intensity. I had to kind of slow myself down after that first hitter. It was just so much fun, and to pull out the win the way we did makes it even more special.

Joe Musgrove

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just felt that I didn't want to get the anxiety or the nerves with the anticipation of that ninth inning, i just asked him if he was ready to make history, and he said, ‘Let’s do it.'.

Manager Dave Roberts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A new situation for me, semifinals of a Grand Slam, so, yeah, I was nervous. But who isn’t at this point? I was just trying to compose my nerves as well as I could.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is no denying that there is a certain amount of excitement that comes from seeing a tornado when you are set out with the intent of seeing one, at the same time, you are balancing that excitement with a sizable amount of anxiety and concern over what the tornado could do, especially if there are residents in the immediate path of the storm. As someone who spent years studying, and many more years reporting on, tornadoes, it still gets all my nerves firing when you see a tornado in person.

Brandon Miller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to replace 21 tendons, three major nerves, five major vessels, two major bones.

Eduardo Rodriguez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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