1. The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.

2. It was a long, nerve-wracking job.

3. Speaking in public can be a nerve-wracking experience.

4. Bottle-wrack looks the same and grows in the same straggly way.

5. First dates are always nerve-wracking -- that's a given.

6. Gut-Churning definition: nerve-wracking Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

7. 12 Speaking in public can be a nerve-wracking experience.

8. Kissing a Boy for the first time can be really nerve-wracking

9. Acknowledging your mistakes is often a scary and nerve wracking thought

10. I was making my maiden speech, which is traditionally a somewhat nerve-wracking experience.

11. It's all right to hold your breath though. It can be nerve-wracking.

12. I left the room several times because it was too nerve-wracking to watch.

13. For the health-conscious Muscovite, another Soviet legacy is potentially more nerve-wracking still.

14. Of course I was crushed and wracked my brains for any offense I may have caused her.

15. When an interviewer pops this nerve-wracking query, your body language counts as well.

16. Few disciples followed him, his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left.sentence dictionary

17. There's nothing more heart-wrenching—and, let's face it, sometimes nerve-wracking—than a wailing infant.

18. And waiting also all day for the night session, that is nerve-wracking on top of it.

19. Another woman might adore helpless, cuddly babies but find the activity and demands of toddlers nerve-wracking.

20. This handy step-by-step guide should help you get through even the most nerve-wracking introductions.

21. Armed opposition wracked the Sahelian north when the Tuareg and allied groups of the Dori region ended their truce with the government.

22. But despite the longer, often nerve-wracking wait, "we're seeing a lot of smaller firms trade up for talent," he said.

23. Lyushnya admits that this preternatural environment can be nerve-wracking, especially when he's the only one working the night shift.

24. Ending a book is a nerve-wracking proposition; at least, it is if you assume you'll only have one shot at it.

25. A nerve-wracking wait added to the mounting psychological pressure as we charted the progress of the sun over the Anglesey seascape.

26. Wringing a seemingly impossible amount of gripping drama out of its claustrophobic premise, Buried is a nerve-wracking showcase for Ryan Reynolds' talent.

27. The Adjudicative process can be nerve-wracking for an individual, especially since every submission is handled on a case-by-case basis

28. As you can imagine, speaking in front of 300 people was a nerve-wracking experience for me, but it was also an icebreaker.

29. The beak-nosed pot-bellied miscreant had a habit of breaking into a nerve-wracking cackle whenever the mood struck his flighty little brain.

30. Beginning with the revolution started by Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany in the 16th century, Europe was wracked by religious wars for several hundred years.

31. Homes, churches, shops; all are built within a huge collection of towering rocks that give the place a very odd and slightly nerve-wracking feel.

32. But since there are many kinds of kisses to reflect the many levels of affection you can have for someone, it can be nerve-wracking!

33. So it is only appropriate that the word comes to us from German, a language spoken by people who are constantly wracked by Angst, and who almost seem to enjoy it.

34. But starting a casual conversation with a stranger -- especially when that stranger has the power to boost your career -- can be nerve-wracking for even the most outgoing people.

35. Making small talk with people you don't know well, such as your boss or a blind date, can be nerve-wracking especially if you want to make a good impression.

36. But needles can be nerve-wracking, especially when they're aimed at a growing baby in the womb, and the procedure carries a 1 in 200 risk of miscarriage.

37. Asking your manager for a raise can be nerve-wracking, so much so, that some people wait for months or even years before Asking for a raise they deserve

38. The appearances of the different Cavalcades are not on a published schedule, so it can be a little nerve-wracking to wonder when you can catch your favorite characters.

39. A skier who slipped off a Chairlift and was dangling by her jacket was rescued at a mountain in upstate New York in a nerve-wracking scene captured on video

40. I had a nerve-wracking time reading your latest article about the Western moron who cheated on his Chinese wife and subsequently got himself pretty roughed up by her paid muscle.

41. In 2006 the Ivory Coast , long since wracked by civil war , saw battling factions put down arms and pick up remote controls for a ceasefire in order to support the Ivorians in their first ever crack at World Cup play .

42. On the nerve-wracking eve of his new, big show, I have just told the 88-year old father of pop art that there is a mistake in one of his prints (this one is an inkjet solvent print).

43. The Washington Consensus is a set of ten economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, D.C.-based institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and United States Department of the Treasury

44. ‘Other species in danger are the brown hare, skylark, linnet, reed bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, Bullfinch, song thrush and grass-wrack pondweed.’ ‘Feeding on berries or with a mouthful of insects to take to chicks in their nests, images included blackbirds, robins, thrushes and many other birds rarely seen such as the Bullfinch