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How to use the word racking in a Sentence?

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Just seeing the shelves just bare, it's pretty nerve-racking, especially when you start getting down to your last couple of cans and you're just not sure what you're going to if you can't find that formula, we're in a situation where our children are on this formula because of the calorie content of it -- not because they have food allergies -- so if we really needed to, we could put them on a different formula -- but only if we needed to... There are a lot of families that don't have that option.

Nicolas Huktin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Watching him attack it day in and day out, it was unbelievable, it was nerve-racking for me at times. I'd be in there getting ready for practice or something and he's starting to jump rope for the first time and I know how far out of surgery he is.

Matthew Stafford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I spent the last three or four days really kind of racking my brain, and I woke up this morning and went to Facebook, and there was that video with the police on it right away. That was the couple.

Brian Laundrie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Olympics was definitely nerve-racking, even moreso that there were no fans there, so you didn’t really have the buzz of the crowd to keep you into it, it was really strange but I think it helped me a lot. I think I was more nervous for that than I am now.

Shane Baz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's nerve-racking. You fear for the worst. You see they have a little tent set up because the emergency room to the hospital where you are walking are right there in sight of each other, i have to do what's best for my unborn child... make sure we're on track for that, and also trying to make sure my other two are safe and healthy.

Rebecca Gray

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm inclined to think we'll reach some agreements and move forward... but certainly there's a lot of posturing and positioning, and it can be a little nerve-racking for investors who are wondering which companies and which countries might be affected and how.

John Carey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You know, when you have to take seriously, it is a little more nerve-racking, when you're joking around on an interview, it's different. But, no, I'm excited.

Chrissy Metz

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's nerve-racking, it's exciting, but it's also scary.

James Obergefell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Leading up to it was nerve-racking, i couldn't run. I couldn't touch a basketball. I couldn't get stressed out, it was tough.

Jeff Green

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

W. Somerset Maugham

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10 years ago

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