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nimbly

[ UK /nˈɪmbli/ ]
[ US /ˈnɪmbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease
    leaped agilely from roof to roof
    nimbly scaling an iron gate

How To Use nimbly In A Sentence

  • Had he found a partner worthy of him, she thought, he would have danced as nimbly as the king.
  • Though if you were watching, you'd find your heart in your mouth as they raced after balls and leaped nimbly over the barriers.
  • Ashtalán smiled as she watched him go, and then leaped nimbly from the deck to the bowsprit.
  • They nimbly cleared bows of fallen trees as they ran, pushing their legs to go faster and harder.
  • Evidently our varicose friends imagine they have caught a Tartar, and that the white ducks are not so recent an importation as they at first supposed; for now they catch up the pole of the palkee nimbly, and _jou jeldie_ (that is, trot up smartly) to quite another song. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
  • An even more interesting possibility is that they were not merely actors but nimbly planning ones who schemed to exploit their would-be exploiters.
  • Sabrina jumped nimbly out of the van.
  • The Doctor hopped nimbly forward, careful not to disturb the fragile balance of what remained of the structure.
  • He took a swing at him, but John nimbly dodged the blow.
  • She went nimbly round and round the beds of anemones, tulips, jonquils, polyanthuses, and other old-fashioned flowers, looking a very charming figure in her half-mourning bonnet, and with an incomplete nosegay in her left hand. Wessex Tales
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