Example Sentences

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As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Darsie is nerving herself to look at the horses’ tails!” said Ida laughingly.

From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.

There is a glorious hope shining across the cancer waste, and it is nerving the will of research with unconquerable perseverance.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry