UPTIGHT in a Sentence

Learn UPTIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for UPTIGHT, such as:
1. Tonight he is manic, wired and uptight.
2. Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.
3. Where I get a little uptight is when I think about the current job hunt and I'm told I don't have enough experience.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of UPTIGHT
uptight
 a.  in a vertical position; not sloping
 a.  upright in position or posture
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Example Sentence:
1  Tonight he is manic, wired and uptight.
2  Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.
3  Where I get a little uptight is when I think about the current job hunt and I'm told I don't have enough experience.
4  He fashions a starchy, uptight world-class pianist by capturing that essence of self control.