MacDougal's voice had a rasp in it that acted like sandpaper on her exposed nerves.

The gel coats the painful area to protect exposed nerves from irritation and pain.

The exposed nerves are damaged, leaving the child with varying degrees of paralysis, incontinence, and sometimes mental retardation.

There needs to be direct physical contact--preferably with exposed nerves, although that's not absolutely necessary.

The Frenchman also used to say that the enemy's exposed nerves were our best allies.

The next morning, my dentist explained that not only doesn't Anbesol work on exposed nerves, it makes them worse.

From the outset, this Regina is a welter of exposed nerves.

"Pull down the goddam trees and look at their tops," Kate half shouted, her ruined voice a rough scrape across exposed nerves.

He was reasonable, intelligent and persuasive, with uncanny skill in touching exposed nerves of national life.

Amid the concrete and traffic, she is chronically skittish, a bundle of exposed nerves.