Example sentences for: nervously

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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 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.


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