Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.

He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.

He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her.

You got a lot of nerve / To say you are my friend / When I was down / You just stood there grinning

A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.

Southgate's side kept their nerve and discipline in the unsettling, intimidating surroundings of Budapest, with the behaviour of Hungary's fans leaving much to be desired, to turn up the heat and punish their opponents ruthlessly once they had gone ahead.

The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories

All these rationalizations for asinine behavior are getting on my nerves.

His nerves could no longer handle the worry.

Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me

Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test; she was a bundle of nerves.

The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.

May their example nerve us to face the enemy.

And how I strained my ears, and nerved my hands and limbs, beginning to twitch with convulsive movements, which I feared might betray me!

The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.

The shock nerved her, and she ran aimlessly till she fell, and for a time lay, but making a barrier of her arms, that the child should not be crushed.

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