Example Sentences

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That led to a tie-break which also started nervily.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2022

In conversation Lethem is nervily entertaining, exceptionally bright.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2020

Villa defending nervily at the moment: Bournemouth are pushing them back.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2015

By scooping up 10-month-old Anna and Elsa, Once Upon a Time has abandoned any pretense of nervily refreshing timeless tales, or engaging with a tradition.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2014

She threw down her modelling tools with a fretful gesture and then nervily began to destroy her morning's work, patting the clay aimlessly here and there until once more it became a shapeless mass.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness