How to use "nervous" in a sentence

They turn, looking a little nervous

Women became very nervous

Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes were murdered near Jewish clubs, and the police were very nervous about the possibility of anti-Jewish disturbances

He worked very hard and nearly had a nervous breakdown.

Cosette, not a nervous girl by nature, smiled to herself and thought no more about it.

They all looked very nervous and excited about something.

Standing beside her on the doorstep was a white-haired man with a strangely nervous smile.

I begin to feel more than nervous now: I begin to feel scared

"What is this?" he says, and he looks nervous but not nervous enough.

And he looks more than nervous now

And she has deep-green eyes that at the moment are tired and nervous and show something which he does not completely recognise.

From here Jake can see that he looks nervous.

I became nervous and afraid

As soon as she made that decision, most of her nervous energy dissipated

There was electricity in the air, a feeling of triumph, a nervous expectation of success.

A flickering, nervous scowl played across her face, alternating with a tentative smile that appeared when the audience laughed, applauded, or gasped in surprise.

He says I'd just make the performers nervous and cause the technicians to look over their shoulders for the boss when they should have their eyes on their work."

Finished telling him off, she felt pleasantly wrung out, as if some evil, nervous energy had been drained from her.

"In your condition, throwing off all that nervous energy the way you are, two small brandies won't affect you in the slightest."

At the start of the evening, the undercurrent of sexual tension made her nervous

He was nervous.

But he didn't appear to be nervous at all.

He was on the thin line that separated animal alertness from nervous frenzy.

Hawes was nervous and his behaviour strange

At last, a meeting was arranged in the garden, and here Lawrence spoke to a very nervous Gladdie

'I want to confess,' a high, nervous voice screamed at me

She looked very frightened and nervous

'"Are you awake, Jack?" she cried with a nervous laugh

Now she looked like the Laura I first met at Limmeridge: her expression was lively once more, she smiled frequently, and she had lost that sad nervous look that made her so very like Anne Catherick