Example Sentences

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This is needed for the nervous system to function properly, but too much calcium coming into cells can result in overexcitability and seizures.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023

I am easily provoked into overexcitability, but after 40 minutes of so of uninterrupted novelty – oh it's the sound of washing up!

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2010

At 16, when I portrayed Anne on Broadway, it was her flaws--vanity, overexcitability and quickness to fight--that interested me the most.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a relationship is indeed conceivable when we consider the motor overexcitability of all sleep walkers and the effecting of ebb and flow through the influence of the moon.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.