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'nervous' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'nervous' with 19 example sentences.


nervous adjective

: easily agitated

: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

: excited in anticipation

: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

: of or relating to the nervous system


  • I was really nervous that day.
  • His feet swell when he gets nervous.
  • I don't feel particularly nervous.
  • You seem very nervous this morning.
  • Do you feel nervous in the office today?
  • I'm always nervous before I go on stage.
  • She's really nervous, isn't she?
  • "This is my first flight. I'm nervous," says Hiroshi.
  • Her presence makes me nervous.
  • I was nervous before the exam.
  • I became very nervous when I couldn't locate my passport.
  • I'm too nervous to eat anything.
  • They looked like they were nervous.
  • Being too nervous to reply, he stared at the floor.
  • Did your sister have a nervous breakdown?
  • Put that knife down. You're making me nervous.
  • The central nervous system does not heal.
  • The recent frequency of earthquakes makes us nervous.
  • Silence makes some people nervous.
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