Example sentences for: nervously

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

  • After Jim left, two Archie-faction ROT men scurried over and nervously assured me that Jim was a kook.

  • 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."

  • The great lobby of the Palais, the Salle des Pas Perdus, is worth a visit for a glimpse of the many lawyers, plaintiffs, witnesses, court reporters, and assorted hangers-on waiting nervously for the wheels of French justice to grind into action.

  • "We have nothing against the Hillies," says Jacklyn, a GS-11, as she taps her ubiquitous identity badge nervously on the table.

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


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