How To Use Nervously In A Sentence

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.

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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.
Jim was not in the mood for any more liquor or food, and simply sat, trying and failing not to clasp and unclasp his hands nervously. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
I look at my big daft name on the back wall and nervously come down the stairs. The Sun
I looked nervously around the cabin.
James stood up and wiped his hands on his jeans nervously and compulsively, as if trying to disassociate himself from death. CLASS TRIP
He answered somewhat nervously.
She nervously giggled but gave him a strained look craving an answer to her question.
The captain wandered about like a lost soul, nervously chewing his mustache, scowling, unable to make up his mind what to do. THE SEED OF McCOY
The lemkin peered up at the giant and fingered the rope noose nervously. The Size of Things « A Fly in Amber
Lena stepped nervously into the classroom, smoothing her jeans the best she could, and brushing the long brown hairs from her black top.
Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
Then we began the second half the walk through countryside, stopping to marvel nervously at an enraged bull bellowing from a field. Times, Sunday Times
She rushed the hair out of her face with a shaky hand, glancing around nervously in the pale gray light of dawn.
Jim gulped nervously, before dropping the lighter on the fluids.
One of the tiny bat-creatures chittered nervously from the darkness.
I walked nervously up the garden path towards the front door.
He nervously moistened his lips with his tongue.
Following consecutive defeats away at Tottenham and Wigan Athletic, Arsene Wenger's gaze has shifted from having the title firmly in his sights to nervously peering over his shoulder at the chasing pack. Football.co.uk news feed
The political literature of the nineteenth century was full of references to class, and in particular nervously raised the possibility of unchecked working-class political power. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
He moved his arms nervously and walked to and fro, beside a mountain of ferryboat luggage. COUP D'ETAT
She jittered nervously as she waited for it to show up.
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
His Adam's apple bobbed nervously in his short, thick throat.
The scientists in the crowd would look nervously at one another, the New Age types would beam and chortle. TROPIC OF NIGHT
Bryan tittered nervously, and the two men sat in a very uncomfortable hot silence.
He grabbed his wet hair and began to fidget, running his hands over it nervously.
I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
The northern half of the island is a mountain range covered with jungle, to which a perilous beach road nervously clings. Times, Sunday Times
At those times I enter one of those far off reveries, the kind that lead people to say nervously, ‘Penny for your thoughts.’
Emily bit her lower lip and nodded nervously; thinking he meant her to do it alone she moved to climb from his lap.
`His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop"--he bowed nervously at the prelate `is well-known. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Ty looked over in her direction nervously, admiring her curvy figure and lush lips.
The mage was jittering nervously as Lushya simply stood there dumbfounded.
She licked her lips nervously before recovering herself.
There are also the businessmen with briefcases who look nervously at my camera, imagining that I am a paid spy.
James stood up and wiped his hands on his jeans nervously and compulsively, as if trying to disassociate himself from death. CLASS TRIP
Vinny brought the plastic cup of beer to his mouth and tipped his head back, gulping nervously, chugging the entire beverage in just a few slurps.
She was fiddling with her table napkin nervously.
The chairman is still hovering, nervously. Times, Sunday Times
I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
She was constantly tuning her guitar between songs, smiling nervously as she filled the time with self-deprecating jokes.
He bit his lip nervously, trying not to cry.
His eyes darted nervously back and forth between the protesters and the tense-looking Marines inside the cordon of concertina wire.
He felt himself go dizzy, and had to put his head against a pillow slowly, closing his eyes and gulping nervously, not daring to move, in case he woke her up.
The priest fidgeted nervously with his black rosary beads.
United just seem to be clicking into gear and the top two will be looking nervously over their shoulders. The Sun
They keep inviting him out to hunt with them, to go drinking in the ale houses, to roister round the streets in masks, and he, nervously, declines. The White Queen
Adam put a hand nervously through his thick black hair, suddenly conscious of the lawyer's stare.
As the markets nervously await tomorrow's opening, the bulls fear the bears have seized control and will force equity markets into a further decline.
Ranks of police in riot gear stood nervously by.
Michael glanced almost nervously at James, who smiled and clapped him on the shoulder.
She took up a slice of bread, broke it nervously, then put it aside.
His left hand was running over his tattoo nervously.
His eyes were riveted to the overhead screen while the heel of his right foot tapped nervously on the floor.
Behind her, a horse - his horse - pranced about nervously, whinnying.
As Mike walked over to the nearest wall-mounted phone, I glanced nervously into the treatment area. NIGHT SISTERS
I walked nervously up the garden path towards the front door.
Mimi nervously tugged at her shirt, and fumbled for words.
He ran his tongue nervously over his lips.
She took up a slice of bread, broke it nervously, then put it aside.
Afterwards, I twitch nervously and experience flashing visions of her rolling her eyes and barking, ‘What business is it of yours?’
Somewhat nervously, she pressed the button for the elevator that would take her up to the sixteenth floor and Adrienne.
As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
James fidgeted in his chair, nervously clasping and unclasping his hands.
Michelle had been waiting nervously all week for a major batch of primaries to be held in the mid-west. WALL GAMES
The election of Britain's first Green Party MP would make a tangible difference: on 6 May, every Labour MP would begin nervously to swot up on climate change.
As she approached the wide set of doors that led to the hall she could see Erik nervously fidgeting with his uniform in a mirror, adjusting and readjusting his tunic.
our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch
He also performs some prosaic poetry of more recent vintage, before nervously taking to the mic to croon.
Before that triumph, the dramatist had nervously revised the play again and again. Times, Sunday Times
At least they do not do so to the same extent as those more nervously and susceptibly constituted. Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
In the rising morning heat, we all made final adjustments to backpacks and chattered nervously in an array of languages about what lay ahead. Taking on 'Everyman's Everest'EasIER Peaks
It was distorted in a horrible shape, because she had wrung her hands nervously.
But some of his fellow passengers looked around nervously under the glow of red cabin lights.
Theo came over to Lydia, whose hands had begun to fidget nervously.
He gulped again and asked nervously, ‘Anyone see a little tan cat run through here?’
My dad started, twiddling his fingers nervously.
This was my distinct feeling when nervously trying to set up my first foray into journalism.
Before that triumph, the dramatist had nervously revised the play again and again. Times, Sunday Times
It did not appear that such an inquiry had been tactful of her, the waitress noticed, nervously biting her underlip.
The audience titters nervously, not laughing with the melodrama, but at it.
I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.
I was about to lecture him about the evil of self-conceit and the importance of modesty, when a servant ran into the library crying nervously.
Feeling strangely out of place, DJ fiddled with her fingers in her lap and looked around nervously.
Nervously, I fiddled with the ribbon sash on my straw hat.
Patricia, his assistant, had flittered across the room nervously to greet him.
He played with a tassel in each hand, sometimes nervously chewing the toggles.
England lack the confidence for the spectacular but the solid will often suffice in games as nervously mediocre as this one. Times, Sunday Times
Most Picasso shows tiptoe nervously around it. Times, Sunday Times
Before that triumph, the dramatist had nervously revised the play again and again. Times, Sunday Times
we watched the stock market nervously
Charlie shifted in her seat and rapped her fingers nervously on the armrest of her chair.
Jasmine watched nervously as she talked for several moments with the duty nurse.
She gasped and the horse whickered, stamping its hooves against the earth nervously.
Sandra shifted her feet nervously and displayed a weak, but timid, smile.
‘And who is that?’ the Mahratta asked, glancing sideways nervously. Kim
A short time later, we were riding the elevator up to the top floor, high above downtown Pittsburgh, as Esther nervously retied her neck scarf and checked her makeup.
Between the offbeat strum, subterranean bass and rock-steady drumming, they leave gaps that other bands would nervously clutter with ephemera.
She nervously fiddled with the ties on her shirt.
She twisted one of those auburn hairs around her finger, looking nervously up at him.
They were jittery now and reacted nervously to any movement around their dugouts.
Spindles and fingers moved so quickly that the workshop seemed to be one great nervously - pulsating machine.
He sat nervously on the edge of his chair.
Nick gulped, nervously adjusting the collar of his shirt.
Still awash in relief at leaving behind the murky realm of differing ideologies, Anne giggled nervously.
Carol managed to free her lips from his, rearing back and laughing nervously. THE LAST TEMPTATION
He soon began to fidget nervously, partly because his body kept staring at him, and partly because of the deathly silence.
Gupta bowed nervously, left the room, and the second clerk came in. TANK OF SERPENTS
In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
How they all seem so cool and brave, but each of them is nervously shredding the labels on their beer.
We sat, and I glanced at the music nervously because I knew I would have to sight-read both ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ and the other piece we were playing.
An overanxious public relations person assigned to promoting Office 2003 among reviewers has been e-mailing me regularly, nervously asking what my reviews are going to say.
He walks nervously, and finally orders the troops to withdraw.
In the big spotted cats he recognized the hereditary enemy, and, even before he was thrust into the cage, his neck was all a-prickle as the skin nervously tightened and the hair uprose stiff-ended. CHAPTER XXIX
Doyle laughed nervously, now that his cover had been blown.
They didn't seem to notice the wind started to howl through the town, making their torches gutter and their horses rear nervously.
The girls look nervously at the decks, the mixing desk, the CD control panel.
He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously.
He was sat at the end of the first row, his head down as he nervously fiddled with the straps on his back pack.
He is unceremoniously carted around in a plastic urn inside a carrier bag which nervously changes hands between them.
‘With me!’ ejaculated Mr. Pickwick, rising nervously from his chair, and reseating himself directly afterwards. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
He dawdled nervously toward the door, wishing to melt away.
He bit his lip nervously, trying not to cry.
Her hands nervously adjusted the folds of her gown and the circlet against her hair.
I could see the group standing nervously on the river bank, their nostrils flaring wildly.
Her violet colored eyes blinked rapidly and she nervously glanced down at the clipboard.
He released the mouse and moved a hesitant index finger towards the keypad, pressed the space-bar, nervously. BEHINDLINGS
I was there a minute or two, just tapped my feet nervously and drumming my fingers on the steering wheel to some unknown beat.
It was squeaking nervously and trying to claw its way out.
He laughed nervously, buying time by saying ‘thanks’ to his inquisitor, then he managed one example.
Melody had surprised herself with how calm she had acted and appeared even though inside a swarm of butterflies flitted nervously and a shiver ran down her spine.
So Jake pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, placed it in front of him on the lectern, straightened his tie and coughed nervously.
The tiny animal darted away nervously, no doubt totally discombobulated by the sight of two bubble-blowing monsters disturbing it's quiet lifestyle.
Penelope's fingers curled and uncurled nervously in her lap.
In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
Gulping nervously, she quickly smoothed down her short hair, which she had cropped off awkwardly with a pair of shears, and turned the door knob.
I waited up in my room, nervously pacing in my beautiful gown.
They were barely fifteen feet away, and the terrorists had begun to fidget nervously.
She looked up nervously, gulped once and slowly stood up.
The soloist nervously expresses mortal doubts and fears.
A woman with her back to him was gazing into a mirror as a hairdresser nervously teased her hair into an elegant chignon. THE SOUND OF MURDER
He threw either underarm or with a slingy, sideways delivery, and fell nervously when forced to dive. Times, Sunday Times
She nervously twiddled her fingers together, looking completely uncomfortable.
Fiera fidgeted nervously as she walked towards the local skating rink, skates in hand.
Her hands, which had formerly been clasped in her lap, were now being wrung nervously, her fingers gripping and squeezing those of the other hand and vice-versa.
Michael and Jessica were shifting uncomfortably and nervously, unsure of what to do.
She wrung her hands nervously behind her back, shoulders tensing and untensing.
From the way he kept nervously lifting a finger to touch his eye patch, she surmised also that he was not sure whether she would like it. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Nervously the men wandered about; the two wounded men became the center of attraction and related for the hundredth time their sensations when the juramentado had struck them down. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
"Egypt, along the Nile River, " she said, nervously twirling her hair.
They stood nervously at attention while Miri drained the entire glass.
Meg took it and drank slowly, careful not to spill any on her dress, while Mrs. Carroll fretted around the pair, nervously fidgeting with the bottom tier of the gown.
She waited nervously for his anger to subside.
I laughed nervously and fiddled with the loops on my sweatshirt.
The other officers at the Battalion staff meeting whispered to each other nervously.
I stood nervously in the wings, backstage, watching the present act on stage.
She giggled nervously, looping her arms about his neck, feeling herself small and helpless in his strong embrace. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
We'd picked up the boat from Crown Blue Line at Castelnaudry, and after a brief driving lesson in the large canal basin in the middle of town, had nervously entered the first of a downward flight of locks.
Russell was clasping and unclasping his hands nervously.
The region has followed the instabilities of Indonesia nervously since the crisis and regime change in 1998.
Lord, please keep him safe, Sara prayed, nervously clasping and unclasping her hands.
He cocked his head quizzically and his tongue nervously lapped at his flews.
Under these circumstances we cannot say we are going to Bosnia to win," blubbed Blanc as he nervously checked to see whether his players had suddenly decided to boycott the match or the kit had spontaneously combusted. It Could Always Be Worse, and the France Football Team
And you could see why – watching his rendition of Crazy Little Thing Called Love was like watching a barely sentient toddler nervously free-associate to himself. X Factor Betting Odds: Louis Walsh To Win?
Nelly is a startled-looking woman in a business suit who nervously takes the microphone and begins scatting.
His little hand clutched the edge of his seat as he looked nervously around, gulping at the weird glow on the other people's faces.
She gulped nervously as they disappeared and the creature tucked its membranous wings to itself and rocketed toward the group of the others that had broken out.
Coughing a little as her coffee caught in her throat, she lowered the mug and fingered its handle nervously.
He looked around nervously and wiped his perspiring brow.
She gulped nervously, as if the question bothered her.
She stood nervously in the wings waiting for her cue.
He looked nervously over his shoulder, making sure no one else was listening.
No; she is staying in Tivoli till the end of the week," Jenny answered a little nervously. Jenny: A Novel
The scientists in the crowd would look nervously at one another, the New Age types would beam and chortle. TROPIC OF NIGHT
James nervously straightened his untidy cravat and smoothed his hair.
The man glanced nervously at his watch.
He stared down at his plate nervously, slowly chewing the bite of food that he just took.
Well," I said, grinding my cigarette nervously into the granite step.
She was nervously picking bits of fluff off her sweater.
Before that triumph, the dramatist had nervously revised the play again and again. Times, Sunday Times
But he inquired nervously of Alan as Alan retrieved his weapon from the master-at-arms, "You're a good knife? Destiny Narrowly Avoided
The man looked nervously in either direction, then down at his shirt.
He bowed slightly, nervously biting his bottom lip, and Tanaki felt the colour rising in his face.
I recognized a fellow sufferer, waiting nervously outside the exam room.
Boyd nervously tapped his pencil on the table top.
He grins nervously, and clops his feet under the table. Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev: So which of the old allies is truly in charge? | Tom Parfitt
The scientists in the crowd would look nervously at one another, the New Age types would beam and chortle. TROPIC OF NIGHT
He kept toying nervously with his pen.
She looked down at her podium and nervously twiddled her fingers.
A small girl with short bubblegum pink hair and red eyes runs out from the bushes and to me, wringing her hands nervously, and muttering, ‘Oh, no, oh, no, this cannot be good.’
This explains why the companies that once dominated industrial-strength computing—the IBMs, the Oracles, the H-Ps—now nervously tug their forelocks around Apple and Google. What Price the Cloud?
Joshua had not spoken since Lilac's entrance, but Mrs Greenways, eyeing him nervously, felt sure he was preparing to "preachify. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May

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