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Example sentences for "little nervous"

  • Dick felt a little nervous, but he summoned up all his courage, and, ascending the broad marble steps, rang the bell.

  • Still his new friend's proposal made Dick feel a little nervous.

  • Garraboy plucked Cheever nervously by the sleeve, while Majendie, as if realizing that he was dealing with an antagonist of a different caliber, rose with a little nervous inflation of the chest.

  • Cheever, who put one finger to his lip, as he did when a little nervous.

  • Perhaps she was a little nervous,” said Lady Waggett, who, though not distinguished, was good.

  • He was a little nervous, he would not really have been very sorry if some officious person had disregarded the engaged on the carriage and entered.

  • She was a little nervous at the meeting between him and Edward; she wondered what they would think of one another, and she watched--Gerald!

  • A little nervous turn,--that is all," he said.

  • The Young Astronomer looked upon him with an eye as clear and steady and brilliant as the evening star, but I could see that he too was a little nervous, wondering what would come next.

  • There was something in Master Gridley's look that made the Doctor feel a little nervous; he did not know just what was coming.

  • They say the Queen is well, but rather "emue" and a little nervous, which must be expected.

  • It was the first time Wolff had played in London, and he was a little nervous.

  • She was a little nervous at first, but soon got over that, and her language was good and well chosen, she knew her subject perfectly, and spoke in a pretty clear voice.

  • I am only a little nervous as to their reception.

  • Joyce, with a little nervous movement, withdraws it quickly.

  • Now she throws open the door and enters, radiant, if a little nervous.

  • Of course everybody was a little nervous in the trial games, and there was the usual amount of ill luck, and of "Ohs and Ahs" of success or failure.

  • I must confess to feeling not a little nervous in the prospect of my initiation into society, and regarding with a secret envy the dashing, easy assurance of Jim.

  • I felt a little nervous flutter of her hand on my arm as she said this.

  • For a while, as ever, I am a little nervous of looking below.

  • The road is absolutely empty, and we begin to feel a little nervous.

  • We are beginning to feel a little nervous, but are very keen to go on.

  • It made her a little nervous; for although in the old impecunious days she went on all necessary errands in the morning alone, she rarely left the house after sundown even with a companion.

  • She was growing a little nervous, and disliked being left alone in the house.

  • She was a little nervous about it; she wished Katherine to go with her, and yet she did not wish it.

  • I'm a little nervous about it after that fire.

  • Even Tom was a little nervous as he prepared for this latest test.

  • The young inventor was not a little nervous as he prepared to press the button this time.

  • Mellen was surprised and a little nervous.

  • He had not really tried to pitch since last summer and was a little nervous.

  • Hal, growing a little nervous at the tone used by Mr. Williams.

  • The details of these horrors filled the public papers, and were the incessant subject of discussion in society, and were calculated to produce an impression of terror difficult to shake off even by so little nervous a person as myself.

  • Your mother and I were a little nervous about it being dull for you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little nervous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    honest friend; little apart; little awkward; little ball; little boiling; little closer; little creek; little difficult; little doubt; little face; little feet; little flour; little game; little green; little half; little hurt; little knowledge; little mother; little orange; little reflection; little rest; little river; little south; little too; little touch; little water