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How to use nervously in a sentence

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The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously, trying to ease the tension.
She was constantly tuning her guitar between songs, smiling nervously as she filled the time with self-deprecating jokes.
Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand.
A final thought made him drop the chair back onto four legs, stand up and toy nervously with the inkwell.
But turn I did, rolling over slowly to face the girl standing in the doorway, toying nervously with her sleeve.
Michael and Jessica were shifting uncomfortably and nervously, unsure of what to do.
The visa applicants hover nervously in their best clothes as shoe shine boys run eagerly around.
He could stand only half of it, nervously snapped off the switch, went to bed all of a tremble.
How they all seem so cool and brave, but each of them is nervously shredding the labels on their beer.
When I met the other guys for the first time I nervously shredded two beer coasters.
The sailors cluster together nervously, casting frightened glances towards the nearby dark trees.
As they rode, Miri's horse sidled sideways nervously away from Amniteri, and Miri tried vainly to rein him in.
She nervously twiddled her fingers together, looking completely uncomfortable.
The General looked around quite nervously, twiddling his thumbs behind his back.
Clarissa twined a strand of her newly cut black hair around her finger nervously.
She twisted one of those auburn hairs around her finger, looking nervously up at him.
His ears twitched nervously as he noticed the growing changes in her demeanor.
McGuinness sinks another beer, draws nervously on his cigarette and lets his attention wonder from his bag for one, maybe two minutes.
Sandler approaches nervously, Nicholson cheers him on, and Graham sits by oblivious.
Lord, please keep him safe, Sara prayed, nervously clasping and unclasping her hands.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then as the two became accustomed to the light, I saw what I had nervously expected.
The baldheaded, officious undertaker kept moving nervously about, intent upon the ritual of his trade.
Sholto felt nervously for his sword and cleared it instinctively of the coverture in which he was wrapped.
Fumbling nervously in the pocket of his creaseless white waistcoat he brought forth a death notice.
He found the little devil of a delayer in the paper napkin which he had nervously wadded and dropped on the floor.
In its center it seemed to bear a restless, struggling mass, and the passengers on the Sabah watched it nervously.
Her right arm rested upon the table, and her dextral fingers nervously manipulated a sealed letter.
Brad stood nervously drumming his fingers against the wall of the filling station, thinking matters over.
The girl's face flushed, and she began to fumble the shawl nervously with her fingers.
Imagine my surprise when I saw Miss golder step off nervously and hurry up the main street.
Still, the Doctor, with shaded forehead, beat his foot nervously on the ground.
He began nervously brushing the pine-needles from his skin-tight trousers, with dirty hands.
The tiny life-raft dropped toward it, skittering nervously as it hit the thin atmosphere.
Mrs. Hoyt smiled, nervously, and said she must run away and tend to her dinner.
The prisoner, standing between his two guards, gripped his stocking cap nervously.
The girl started nervously as a night-owl hooted suddenly from a near-by thicket.
Texel, nervously fingering the cap he held in his hands, lingered by the door.
But no one did, and some of the younger boys in front began to titter nervously.
His heavy moustache seemed to uncurl itself nervously, and his jaw dropped slowly, as he watched Claudius leave the deck-cabin.
Wheaton's unengaged hand went nervously to his throat, and he fumbled at his tie.
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