Example sentences for: nervously

How can you use “nervously” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Her owner, Barbara Gardi, stood by nervously.

  • When your side has launched an offensive, been driven back, and nervously awaits a counteroffensive, it's not a bad time for an armistice.

  • The Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung nervously watches smaller, and so far nonlethal, avalanches in the Swiss neck of the mountains.

  • When Rich celebrated the 1992 season, he qualified his enthusiasm for the shows by adding, "As a business Broadway remains, more unhealthily and nervously than ever, the oldest floating crap game in New York."

  • His wisecracks sound as if he's nervously thinking them up on the spot, and he's better than anyone at saying something he doesn't mean and then wincing in horror, as if longing to hit the "Delete" key.


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