How To Use Nonchalantly In A Sentence

  • When the rustlers spin round and glare at you, levelling their pistols in your direction, whistle nonchalantly.
  • Murphy stepped up to nonchalantly side-foot high past Heurelho Gomes's left with 11 minutes played. Evening Standard - Home
  • Later, eager to impress Mark in the pub, she foregoes her normal vodka-and-coke and nonchalantly orders a glass of wine.
  • Instead of launching it over the sightscreen, he could only hit a skimming drive that the bowler snaffled nonchalantly. Times, Sunday Times
  • It occurs when Chan nonchalantly eases himself down a brick wall, bracing his legs against a convenient palm tree.
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  • The way they are carrying on there in our office, as they nonchalantly prepare their lunches of sopas or dried instant pasta bought from the nearest Colosso superette, turns into an exercise in applied linguistics. After All, This Is Mexico
  • Their die-straight tunnels pierce the most awesome rock barriers nonchalantly.
  • ‘Yeah, I had physics, chemistry, biology, maths and general studies,’ he fires them off nonchalantly.
  • Four British soldiers mooch nonchalantly with rifles on the shoreline as the mast of a German ship flails over just three metres away.
  • I shrugged nonchalantly and our breakfast was eaten in silence.
  • Neither had anything to declare, as they walked, on different afternoons, nonchalantly past the incurious customs officials in the way one might walk down the marriage aisle if all the guests on either side were asleep.
  • Passengers hurrying in and out, or ambling nonchalantly, occasionally stopping to window-shop. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
  • The local people coexist nonchalantly with their sea cows and can't quite understand the fuss visitors make about them, but are happy to paddle you out in a dugout to see them.
  • ‘If the needle is to the left, then you might live an unbalanced or unharmonious life,’ the screen stated nonchalantly.
  • The man was marvellous, nonchalantly building to crescendos with the fine-tuned trickery of an old master.
  • Then Peanut went back to the table and Ray-Ray continued to walk casually downcourt, flipping his dreads over his shoulder nonchalantly. Law of Attraction
  • So as nonchalantly as I could, I slid into the string, the bra, and the slacks.
  • ‘I heard you are presently engaged with a certain Iruka,’ Yoroi started out of the blue, as he arranged the sweets and bonbons nonchalantly.
  • No one could accomplish the spellbinding feats Barry Sinclair does so nonchalantly during the course of his show.
  • No one was seated at the oblong table, apart from Louis leaning nonchalantly at one end talking to Paul, who was seated to the left side of him.
  • He tried hard not to look like a fox, and gazed nonchalantly up to where brief rays of sunlight filtered through the branches of nearby oak trees and onto the decayed husks of dead bluebells.
  • Yet regarding Massimo Pallottino's crucial list of Etruscan inscriptions called Testimonia linguae Etruscae TLE, after months of witnessing its absence on the shelf at the U of M, I was told nonchalantly by a librarian I spoke to that it was probably stolen. Phi Beta Kappa + masters degree = instant Etruscanist
  • At its foot, Harland disconnects a telephone call, his eyes nonchalantly straying to hers.
  • I'll put the chopper down there, walk over nonchalantly to the Joe on duty and say, `See here, chum, I've got a deader on board. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • Passengers hurrying in and out, or ambling nonchalantly, occasionally stopping to window-shop. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
  • He looked over at the old notebook and flipped through the pages nonchalantly, eyes scanning each page quickly as though they contained some secret.
  • Shrugging nonchalantly, Lucia sat down in the only open seat left at the table once her dark-skinned friend had reseated herself.
  • Does Will intend to return with us?" Joanna asked as nonchalantly as she could.
  • Even as the camera recorded this blatant act of arson, on the parapet sat a group of women, one of them nonchalantly dangling her legs, watching the tamasha.
  • Damien asked nonchalantly, crossing and uncrossing his arms as he tried to find the pose that seemed the least vulnerable.
  • I nonchalantly leave Adrian in the living room and enter the kitchen, although my stomach is clenching with anxiety and apprehension.
  • He offers me some of the coke, I shake my head nonchalantly.
  • Being a consummate realist, Joyce reports what he observes and then nonchalantly pares his fingernails, as Stephen suggests in the speculative remarks at the end of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.
  • True, I did not stand there, nonchalantly drawing on a cigarette
  • Brakes screeched and horn blared but Harry just sauntered over to me so nonchalantly.
  • Instead of launching it over the sightscreen, he could only hit a skimming drive that the bowler snaffled nonchalantly. Times, Sunday Times
  • They hosted dinner parties - although we never called them that because it sounded middle class - at which they nonchalantly served up bruschetta and poached salmon.
  • From our seats we view huge bulls bellowing like gladiators and bowlegged, skinny-bottomed cowboys in chaps nonchalantly smoking rollups.
  • She looked at him from anxious blue eyes for a moment, and then nonchalantly wrapped a line of gauze around her forearm.
  • Lithographs by Henry Moore are strewn nonchalantly on the surface of an odds-and-ends box, left as samples for visiting artists to leaf through.
  • This time they turned to hooker Slattery and he nonchalantly slotted a left footer through the posts from the 22 metre line.
  • Bond-like hero than erudite belletrist, alluding as nonchalantly to Rage Against the Machine and Bart Simpson as he does 19th century radical French mathematician évariste Galois and René TIME.com: Top Stories
  • He stood nonchalantly next to the quarter-deck rail looking into the waist.
  • He found the parking garage and drove nonchalantly to the fourth floor, where he found a compact space between two larger vehicles.
  • I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets.
  • They were sprawled nonchalantly, legs akimbo, across the precarious rock pathway that led to my jumping-off point.
  • She stood and cracked her back, replying nonchalantly as she skipped stones.
  • We view huge bulls bellowing like gladiators and bow-legged, skinny-bottomed cowboys in chaps, nonchalantly smoking roll-ups.
  • “The head of Sci-Fi channel has contritely promised to includemore homosex in future shows, and to do it nonchalantly, just as if this abomination is normal and natural and worthy of no comment.” and: At the crossroads of desire and fear, we find such things as this « paper fruit
  • I said, nonchalantly gulping down a bolus of fear.
  • I even took a super-secret spycam photo by super-secret, I mean that I stuck my hand up in the air in a non-obvious way and nonchalantly aimed my Treo towards the pulpit. My Church Visit, in which I am Taught to Show Love for Gays by Denying Them Wedded Bliss. | Mind on Fire
  • Many times, in the course of the day, alertly and nonchalantly, almost with a quizzical knowingness, Jerry cocked his head at the mainsail when it made sudden swooping movements or slacked and tautened its crashing sheet-gear. CHAPTER III
  • "Only got 'em one yarramen," said the blackfellow nonchalantly.
  • She licked her full, pink lips and nonchalantly flipped her blond hair over her shoulder.
  • She nonchalantly wrote, “Deep under them both is solid blue clay, embalming the fossil horse and fossil ox and the great mastodon, the same preserving blue clay that was dug up to wrap the head of the Big Harp in bandit days, no less a monstrous thing when carried in for reward.” Archive 2009-04-01
  • Goodes stopped the rot with a set shot following a massive 'speccy', but there was no stopping the Demons as Austin Wonaeamirri, who was a late inclusion for Moloney, nonchalantly thread the eye of the needle from almost on the goal line before Paul Johnson marked and goaled. Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
  • Such forces can rarely be detected ahead of time, but to charge headlong without at least trying to assess your situation is like skipping nonchalantly through a mine field.
  • Others yelled support or argued nonchalantly in groups while bursts of automatic gunfire rattled unnoticed from the speakers. The Crossing-Place

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