How to Use bundle of nerves in a Sentence
bundle of nerves
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This message is sent deep inside the brain to the amygdala, a tiny bundle of nerves that serves as our chief arbiter of curiosity and avoidance.
—Julia Daye, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025
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Normally the picture of sprezzatura, he had been reduced to a chain-smoking bundle of nerves during the cocktail hour and appetizer course.
—Julia Vitale, Air Mail, 13 June 2026
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Not necessarily tranquility; almost every Miyake lead is outright depressed or a bundle of nerves about key issues in their life.
—Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2025
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Most and Anson Williams reminisced about the iconic television show and Howard’s bundle of nerves during a Happy Days reunion panel in Tennessee on Saturday.
—Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026
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The show is mostly known in the States for launching the career of Rachel McAdams, but it can’t be understated how incredible Goss, playing the festival’s temperamental artistic director, is in it, a fraying bundle of nerves and passion that threatens to collapse on himself at any moment.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
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