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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word overstrung? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| In a detailed note he explains that because it is not overstrung, the different registers have their own character. |
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| An overstrung piano has the bass strings running diagonally across the piano, crossing over the treble strings. |
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| She's overstrung to-day. If it were you, you'd be in hysterics. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| What she saw would not have disturbed her if she had not been overstrung by long anxiety. |
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| His nerves were in such an overstrung condition that they only increased the disorder of his imagination. |
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| The whole world seemed a great musical instrument, overstrung and giving out previously unknown harmonies and inharmonies. |
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| As far as I can learn, a piccolo, a cabinet, and a square piano were thus made overstrung. |
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| He knew this time that it was not the hallucination of overstrung nerves. |
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| Stunned by his overstrung emotions, he could only bow his head. |
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| The sight that met the poor woman's eyes was too much for the already overstrung nerves. |
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| Possibly his nerves were overstrung with what he had been going through. |
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| But it is all through every one being so overstrung, I suppose. |
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| Now, Phyllis was tired with much hurried work, and overstrung. |
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| And to Katherine, overstrung as she was, the words came as a rebuke. |
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| There was so strange a turmoil within my own head, and such a jangling of my overstrung nerves, that the indifference of those people was amazing. |
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