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52 examples of Nervously in a sentence

I nervously peered over the side of the bed to see what had befallen my fallen sister and saw that she had landed painfully on her hands and knees on all fours on the ground.
So I picked up my banjo and I nervously played four songs that I actually knew with them.
Okay, I hear you were laughing nervously because you too could hear that the drill was a little bit sharp, the intonation was a little questionable.
They nervously agreed.
I nervously started, and, of course, things are always harder than you think they're going to be.
On the big day, you wait nervously as your teacher hands it out.
Me, nervously: "Yes?"
The main actor nervously grimaces her way through the film, struggling to portray the appropriate level of smug, self-congratulatory self-pity the worthless character and script call for.
Ingrid Bergman's work as the stiff-as-starch nurse Stephanie is also touching to watch as she comes out of her shell, slowly and nervously.
But there were sound track elements which were surprisingly authentic, one being the cacophony of traffic noise of Cairo, which is accurately rendered in the background, and would make anyone who knows Cairo chuckle nervously.
Basically, the white folks were AFRAID to laugh or laughed nervously at the funny bits --and there are many!
Clutch, a retired boxer, nervously awaits the homecoming of his soldier daughter, but first he has to protect the other tenants as the rat-zombies are quickly infesting the entire neighborhood.
The quiet loner Robert Culp and the nervously edgy Eli Wallach are perfect foils for each other and their byplay heightens the creepy 'something lurking nearby' feeling prevalent for most of the film.
Every episode brings something new to the table and makes viewers to nervously wait for the next one.
Markets have not yet found their equilibrium, and the governments on Europe’s southwestern rim are nervously watching how events unfold.
Witness how otherwise sensible adults are reduced to nervously grinning sycophants when they are granted the privilege of touching an extended royal hand.
Meanwhile, American and the world nervously await Trump’s reaction to this latest very bad turn of events for him.
Many other central banks are nervously watching the situation, well aware that they may soon find themselves in the same position as the global economy continues to soften and default rates on all manner of debt continue to rise.
Global markets are well aware of the danger of the United States falling over the “fiscal cliff,” and are watching nervously.
Asian central banks are still nervously clinging to the dollar.
While the packed parliament speculated nervously, Mazowiecki slipped out of a side entrance to get some fresh air in nearby Ujazdowski Park in central Warsaw.
Across Europe, mainstream conservatives will be watching this dance nervously over the coming weeks and months.
Love and Marriage in North KoreaNEW YORK – Imagine North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a tuxedo, waiting nervously at the altar (or shrine) of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, and his father, Kim Jong-il.
The United States’ closest allies are also watching nervously, and the conclusions they appear to be drawing could harm its national security interests severely in the years and decades to come.
New Europe Catches Old Europe’s ColdLONDON – As governments across Western Europe began bailing out banks and their depositors, Eastern Europeans watched nervously, unsure about what the global financial storm would mean for them.
At the same time, policymakers are looking more and more nervously for an “exit strategy.”
In public, as in private life, honest apologies are a powerful tool, and should be used less nervously and more often.
The latter, with keen eyes and nervously compressed lips, only feared lest they should be carried away by this abuse.
Mademoiselle de La Mole saw him almost at her feet, trembling nervously with the intensity of his ambition.
The presence of K.'s uncle while this was going on was quite disturbing; he did not listen to what was being said, but at first he stood there with eyes wide open and nervously biting his lips.
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