Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Arti Gollapudi plays all three of Deepali’s older sisters, for example, differing mainly by degrees of uptightness.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2023

They are characters of a familiar sort, whose need to be liked, or loved, makes them less likable, whose uptightness makes others uptight — and this applies to the viewer as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

Nothing works, and she insists it is all a joke, because my uptightness is “hilarious.”

From Slate • May 4, 2021

We may congratulate ourselves for being beyond such uptightness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 17, 2015

"I wonder, though, where it came from, this petty-bourgeois uptightness, this terror of not being in control, this schoolboy desire to boast and to shock."

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2010