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Examples

  • Why, there's music sharps that fine-strung an 'keyed-up they'd kill for heaps less'n I did.

    The Passing of Marcus O'Brien 2010

  • For what eternities have I wandered through them, a timid, hunted creature, starting at the least sound, frightened of my own shadow, keyed-up, ever alert and vigilant, ready on the instant to dash away in mad flight for my life.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • By the time I take my seat for the show I am intrigued, even a bit keyed-up.

    Among the psychics 2011

  • He watched horse races on television because he liked the keyed-up voices of the announcers.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • She felt too keyed-up to sleep, but she had to try.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • She felt too keyed-up to sleep, but she had to try.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • He watched horse races on television because he liked the keyed-up voices of the announcers.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • He watched horse races on television because he liked the keyed-up voices of the announcers.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • Something in both that sentiment (the opposite of the keyed-up political hysterics on our own dial) and that last choice of word relaxed me — and almost instantly conjured up colonial history with all its complexities.

    Radio Free Everywhere 2007

  • Something in both that sentiment (the opposite of the keyed-up political hysterics on our own dial) and that last choice of word relaxed me — and almost instantly conjured up colonial history with all its complexities.

    Radio Free Everywhere 2007

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