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nervously

[ UK /nˈɜːvəsli/ ]
[ US /ˈnɝvəsɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an anxiously nervous manner
    we watched the stock market nervously
  2. with nervous excitement
    our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch

How To Use nervously In A Sentence

  • In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
  • Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.
  • She hadn't seen Kenta much, but when she had in the last week he had been smiling nervously and in a strained manner.
  • My ears were met with the noise of Bam nervously jangling his car keys.
  • She was fidgeting nervously with her pen.
  • Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand.
  • I looked at him dourly and gnawed on my nail nervously.
  • Her eyes moved about in worry and she began to chew her bottom lip nervously.
  • Mary Torres, of Ratcliffe Street, York, nervously watched the game with her Argentine husband Pablo and four-year-old son Nico, who worships the South American side.
  • For he really did believe capitalism controls the proles not by physical oppression but by bread and circuses, by cultural debasement - or ‘dumbing down’ as we now nervously say.
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