wrought-up

How to use wrought-up in a sentence

• The papers seem to be woefully wrought up over the financial rating of Mr. Harry Lehr.

  The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 | Various

• I was all wrought up and ready to do anything, and now youve thoroughly put me out.

  The Circle | W. Somerset Maugham

• The Minister, who adored politics with the fervour of a boy of twenty, was that day greatly wrought up on the subject.

  The conquest of Rome | Matilde Serao

• Indeed, there is not a single portrait in Adam Bede—only the suggestions of experience wrought up into new combinations.

  George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George Eliot

• Carl, intensely wrought up, floundered to his bare feet, a "red-hot" in one hand and half a bun in the other.

  Motor Matt's Peril, or, Cast Away in the Bahamas | Stanley R. Matthews