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    Use "nerve" in a sentence

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    nerve


    nerved


    nerves


    nerving


    1. Hold your nerve and trust me they will not have enough confidence to pursue the matter further


    2. What a nerve!


    3. “I mean, the bloody nerve of the man


    4. It is nerve wracking not knowing what is going on


    5. ’ I said, I’ve not had the nerve to call her Betty to her face yet


    6. It must have… It took all his nerve not to call out for the Lancers to attack now while there was still half a chance


    7. Through it all, as the jars and the jolts and the rolling corners sent jagged sparks circulating through my nerve endings, I groaned and tried to blot the world out by closing my eyes, by willing myself into coma


    8. There is no space for space suits, that is all simulated on the signal to his optic nerve input


    9. You know about logic and you know the physiology of the human brain, you know it is logic conducted by nerve cells with a form of electrical charges, and you know it is moderated by chemicals and hormones


    10. The logic of their minds is not performed with nerve cells and hormones but with silicon representations of neurons with global constants representing hormone levels and digital memory representing nucleotide sequences

    11. Every nerve ending reached out into the ether, but no faces seemed familiar … but then they might not be anyone she’d met before


    12. ’ She said, reaching for her wine, not quite having the nerve to meet his eyes


    13. I haven’t had the nerve to pursue a relationship since


    14. into my chest, touching nerve and bone, melting through me,


    15. Yaag works by changing the sensitivity of nerve cells to neurotransmitters, if you know what that means


    16. Any exercise which tones and stretches the leg muscles and the sciatic nerve will bring relief from aching legs and so do not omit from your daily practice schedule the exercises described in the following chapter on lumbago and sciatica


    17. The antidote in this chapter is based on toning up the sciatic nerve and the muscles of the lower back to relieve the pain of sciatica and lumbago


    18. The nerve centre and cells along the spine are stimulated as they receive a richer supply of blood


    19. Nerves and ligaments of the spine arc subjected to a healthy pull, and the spinal nerve roots and sympathetic system are toned so that this posture beneficially affects the entire organism


    20. The nerve they had, locking the door on me in the first place

    21. I thought I was pretty street-wise having lived in Bristol for some years, but this man’s manner catches me on a nerve, making me uncomfortable


    22. What nerve these people have to do this


    23. They are more like the signals in the axion of a nerve cell


    24. Did I have the nerve to jump in and look for him? I had no choice


    25. "Anyway, I see what you're trying to say, the information is contained in the pulse frequency, as it is in a nerve cell


    26. How are you?’ And there you are, trying to sound as though you’ve not spent the last half an hour waiting for him to call! And you have the nerve to scorn Katie sitting by the phone? Ha!


    27. inhibiting the nerve connections and throwing off the


    28. Aha, I’ve hit a nerve! She thought to herself


    29. “Acolyte Tometahin has to control his thoughts so well that his nerve impulses encode my signals into Thom’s condensates


    30. It all had to do with controlling nerve impulses thru the bodies closest to Gordon’s Lamp

    31. Heymon interrupted, “But how long does its nerve impulse, if that’s what these state transitions are, take to get across its body? Over a thousand years


    32. She tried to give him a long science lesson about how thought was nerve impulses and by using enough of their electric crystals the Yingolian’s could make an artificial mind that lived inside the silicon


    33. “Guess I touched a nerve, huh?” She patted my arm


    34. “Human souls using electric currents in silicon crystals to think with instead of nerve impulses among neurons,” Ava explained


    35. You have a lot of nerve, sir!”


    36. touched his nose, the nerve receptors only responding in his fingers


    37. She hurried forward with her last argument while her nerve still held, “You told me not long ago that, 'there is nothing which I have done, or do, that is outside your own reach, should you truly wish to grasp it for your own,' Did you really mean that?”


    38. “Yeah Julia, what were you thinking? Talking in the middle of class, the nerve!” Matt said crossly


    39. I’d never have the nerve to do that myself, and am fascinated to hear about their latest foray – if nothing else, it takes my mind off Simon


    40. Obviously, she’d struck a raw nerve, "I didn't mean to

    41. "I doubt I'll ever have the nerve to say it again


    42. The nerve of him, how dare he think I'd throw in the towel so easily, she thought, “Is that what you were out to prove last night, were you trying to drive me out?"


    43. " she’d practiced telling what she’d found, but had never had the nerve to say it before


    44. To use this equipment it was best to modify one’s self to have a nerve bundle growing in the center of each hair, so that impulses could be picked up as chemical signals and synapsed to the photonic amplifiers in the helmet and transmitted over the suntower thru a data-capacity channel


    45. On the return path light from the suntower was synapsed into the nerve endings, giving him an effective mind-link with the most powerful information storage and manipulating entity on the planet, and with any other minds so linked


    46. An eyestream for an optic nerve, tactile streams for the touch senses, a lump of silicon for a living brain, a souped up avatar for a real human soul


    47. Defoe’s books have been immensely popular and have touched a nerve in the reading public


    48. "That struck a nerve," Desa told Alan


    49. All the system really knew was the data in the sensory input and motor output nerve buses, nothing else in the inner layers of the soul was understood


    50. The next few weeks were nerve wracking














































    1. Charly hesitated to probe deeply, but nerved herself to ask, "Get a good rate?"


    2. He stomach felt like it was nerved up into knots


    3. Desperation had nerved her climb from Jelal Khan's castle on a rope made of strips from torn tapestries, and chance had led her to a picketed horse


    4. And he was nerved to super-energy by frantic fear and desperation


    5. While it was the resurrection of Lazarus that nerved the apostles to enter Jerusalem, it was the memory of the transfiguration that sustained the Master at this trying period of his bestowal


    6. The fear that had nerved her then was now her undoing


    7. My eyes got filled with tears and anxiety nerved me within


    8. Shaking with the release of the nerved up tension that had just been released Koke stepped back from the hacked up corpse on the floor


    9. I could not enter the house, nor was I capable of any movement; but reflecting how important it was that I should be present at what might take place on the occasion, I nerved myself as best I could and went in, for I well knew all the entrances and outlets; and besides, with the confusion that in secret pervaded the house no one took notice of me, so, without being seen, I found an opportunity of placing myself in the recess formed by a window of the hall itself, and concealed by the ends and borders of two tapestries, from between which I could, without being seen, see all that took place in the room


    10. they seldom act from the impulse of a nerved mind, able to choose its own

    11. Decoud nerved himself for the effort of rowing


    12. “Sew,” commanded Archie in a hoarse whisper and the three women, nerved by Melanie’s cool voice, picked up their sewing and bowed their heads


    13. She nerved herself by an effort, entered the swing-gate, and rang the door-bell


    14. It was a hard struggle with him to make new advances, now, but he nerved himself to it and entered


    15. And, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work


    16. Had I not been nerved by thoughts of other dead, and of the living over whom hung such a pall of fear, I could not have gone on


    17. Such and such a formality or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against it


    18. I was not lying to her, that is to say I was lying because the letter in question was in my hands and had never been in Kraft's, but that was a mere detail; in what really mattered I did not lie, because at the instant I told the lie I nerved myself to bum the letter that very evening


    19. For mad despair hath nerved his arm,


    20. She nerved herself to look up at Mr

    1. It’s probably just nerves


    2. Excitement, fear, joy, nerves


    3. Ackers tried to steady his nerves and his breathing while he kept his head up high


    4. Some of the postures have relation to the nervous body and that inner structure of fine nerves, called the 'nadis', which underlie the nervous system


    5. He got on my nerves but


    6. The structure of the conduits for the new control system that would interface with Chief Horcheese had been color-coded and now covered the ghostly, holographic ship like nerves coming together in a nexus at the center of the breaching ship’s bridge


    7. Despite the warmth of my feelings for The Kid I started to become emotionally numb, existing only when the wavelength of light changed or my nerves pinched my soul under Smiler’s latest onslaught


    8. " I feel Sabrina's uneasiness build and I try to calm her nerves, "It's alright, he wants to see you


    9. Trying to put the impending meeting with the residents out of my head, I go and make myself a sandwich, forcing myself to eat it despite the churning which is going on in my stomach – not morning sickness this time thank goodness – but just plain nerves


    10. It was not easy to think while in this much pain, greater than any mortal could ever endure, greater than natural nerves can conduct

    11. ‘Your grandmother was prone to attacks of nerves


    12. Gilla is floating round the house singing to herself and, although I am delighted that she is so happy, quite frankly, it gets on my nerves and only serves to point up my own pretty parlous situation with regard to relationships … their non-existence generally and, more specifically, the chances of one actually manifesting itself at any time in the future


    13. I daresay my nerves are a bit on edge anyway … what with the impending trip to Minca


    14. when we touch flames without nerves screaming,


    15. Over the next few days I did every thing I could to keep my mind off the journey but Auntie kept phoning with little suggestions that were not helping my nerves


    16. It is best performed with the eyes closed which is very calming to the mind and nerves


    17. It also helps to build cells, particularly of the lungs and nerves, and also helps to form albumin in the blood


    18. For the busy housewife and mother who has little time to spare, these movements act as a time-saving beauty treatment, a toning up of nerves and muscles, and above all a means of relieving her internal disorders


    19. They were suffering from the combined effects of thumping heads, dehydration and the bile churning nerves that accompany deeds such as the one they proposed to execute that morning


    20. Tratak is an excellent and soothing exercise for the nerves and helps to relax the mind as well as the eyes

    21. It has the effect of relaxing the nerves and relieving eyestrain, but it can also be used for the purpose of practicing concentration


    22. Nerves and ligaments of the spine arc subjected to a healthy pull, and the spinal nerve roots and sympathetic system are toned so that this posture beneficially affects the entire organism


    23. As the drugs were starting to kick in she relaxed me with a Scientology technique to relax the nerves


    24. His suggestive comments and the grating, dirty laugh got on everyone's nerves


    25. However, she appears to have got over her fit of nerves and is tucking into the hay in the bag at the end of the stall apparently quite content with her lot


    26. Behind me the music was mocking and brash and the dancing and clapping against the coloured lights grated on my nerves


    27. With nerves already ragged for fear of Mercouri's revenge, I crept onto the pan to get a clearer view and to make sure we were safe


    28. I tuck in, relieved that my nerves are finally letting up


    29. Everyone I have to deal with appears to be behaving like a total idiot and then, in addition to that, my nerves are such that if I hear a conversation stop as soon as I walk into the room, I assume they are talking about Alastair and me


    30. Each time I stopped for a drink, I did my best to be casual and filled my mind with all sorts of loopy trivia to try to keep my nerves at bay

    31. Then, and despite his own wish to hear the song again, he asked Lucy to try and keep the house as quiet as the grave for the rest of day so that her mother could recover from her nerves


    32. He could understand someone's nerves at making a presentation before the whole crew, but he looked as much dejected as nervous, in fact he hadn't seen that kind of face on a man since he was mortal and saw someone who just had a close family member die


    33. The brain has no pain-sensing nerves, and


    34. thumping heads, dehydration and the bile churning nerves that


    35. Old Ted soon got over his nerves and


    36. could recover from her nerves


    37. They had maybe a bit more of her nerves


    38. Nerves betray Doctor Jasari


    39. I don’t usually suffer with nerves like this


    40. ’ I said, trying to control my jangling nerves

    41. He struggled mightily to keep his nerves under control, to keep the sweat off his brow and to keep the tremor out of his voice


    42. His nerves fraying, he cursed both himself – for being stupid enough to take this course – and Kev for not being more persuasive


    43. The police car turned off the main road into the lane leading to the barracks and Andy felt his nerves kick into action again


    44. Her aimless twittering was getting on Andy’s nerves


    45. thought he was dreaming, but as his senses started to return slowly and nerves


    46. Having Angie with him had helped calm his nerves but all the same he’d be happier when the ensuing interview was over and done with


    47. ‘Just nerves guys, sorry,’ she thought


    48. ‘So how are the nerves? How many times did you stop and decide that I would have changed my mind? Maybe you have changed yours now that you are here, Anna


    49. It was soothing for her troubled nerves


    50. ” Belle listened, as Kaitlyn continued, “I have forced not merely my nerves and sinews to do my bidding, but I have challenged my every thought and emotion in the effort to purge what silliness and inanity might yet remain in me














































    1. Monday Trask came straight home and into the house, determined on a new course in life, yet he dithered for minutes before nerving himself up to dial long distance


    2. The whole room was talking about me and its echo was nerving me


    3. He was nerving himself to this rigor as he rode from Brassing, and meditated on the representations he must make to Rosamond


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    Synonyms for "nerve"

    boldness brass cheek face nerve heart mettle spunk nervus steel energy force might power strength vigour courage guts spirit endurance firmness fortitude intrepidity audacity impudence temerity presumption discourtesy effrontery nerve fibre venation fortify brace innervate invigorate strengthen

    "nerve" definitions

    any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body


    the courage to carry on


    impudent aggressiveness


    get ready for something difficult or unpleasant