How To Use high-strung In A Sentence
- She was dynamic, a bit high-strung, of strong character, and completely devoted to the cause.
- So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card. The Lady Paramount
- Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people.
- She's high-strung, suspicious and full of moral rectitude.
- On top of that, the couple - John the nice passive accommodator to Deb's high-strung perfectionism - are going through marital problems that neither of them are able to articulate.
- Petite, innocent Shirley was naïve, high-strung, and terribly afraid of soiling her spotless reputation.
- He was a difficult man - high-strung and unpredictable, at times nearly hysterical.
- Unfortunately, there's a dirty cheater willing to do anything to win, even if that means shafting the dean's high-strung, drug-addicted genius son.
- ‘Listen, she's just a little high-strung at the moment,’ he explained, gesturing lightly towards Sydney.
- The Brazilian fans' samba rhythms may be loose, but when it comes to their national team, they are incredibly high-strung and impatient.
