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nervously

If you are acting or doing something nervously, you are showing that you are worried and anxious. He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.

nervously

in an anxiously nervous manner we watched the stock market nervously with nervous excitement our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch

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Simple sentences

As his lips got bluer, I nervously waited for the ambulance.
He laughed nervously.
Tom laughed nervously.
Tom nervously entered.
Tom waited nervously.
Tom and Mary looked at each other nervously.
She laughed nervously.
He drummed nervously on the railing.
Tom drummed his fingers on the table nervously.
Tom entered the room nervously.
Tom looked up at Mary and smiled nervously.
Everyone's waiting nervously to see what'll happen.
Tom looked nervously at the doctor.
Tom nodded nervously.
Tom looked around nervously.
Tom looked nervously around the cave.
Mary chewed on her nails nervously.
Tom chuckled nervously.
Tom scratched the back of his neck nervously.
Mary smiled nervously.
Mary giggled nervously.
Mary looked around nervously.

Movie subtitles

They spend the day sleeping and stirring nervously.
You were speaking of danger: (LAUGHS NERVOUSLY) Danger?
Nervously, I played with my stick.
Ah. (Chuckling nervously) Aunt Agatha, this is a surprise.
A little nervously.
When we think of Hadrian's Wall, we think of the Romans rather like US cavalrymen deep in Indian country, defending the flag, peering through the cracks and waiting nervously for war drums and smoke signals.
The priests would have found those stone defences reassuring as they waited nervously for the Viking raids that they knew could strike hard and fierce at any moment.
Meanwhile, everybody waited nervously for Fozzie to get to the bank. Argh.
George nervously swung in to see if his son still remembered him.
Nervously?
Maybe she's searching nervously for an address.
George Michael nervously approached the family yacht. Gob had been staying on.
Harold nervously made small talk.
The Lesbo leader sat nervously inside.
Shift nervously from foot to foot.
Having deposited his dipsy darling with Ape, George nervously swung in to see if his son still remembered him.
She's toting a suitcase. Maybe she's searching nervously for an address.
Women in the workplace. - (man) Take your time. - Err. (laughs nervously) Sorry.
But he buys me beer, so. (chuckles nervously) that's cool.
He's desperate and he's sweating nervously.
He was euphoric, he laughed, nervously, like someone about to discover something incredible who can't contain his joy.
Cristina, on the other hand, talked nervously.
He might ramble a lot, might nervously strum his guitar but when it comes to fatherly advice, he's pretty much the best there is.
Oh, I'm sure Figgins will just mumble something nervously and then pretend to take a call.
I'm pacing nervously.
Moving nervously, eh?
Why do you keep nervously looking at the door?
Is he, at this moment, nervously excusing himself from the room?
I thought about a vaudeville play glorifying cuckold, and for all my despair, I laughed nervously.
Many came to watch, to nervously observe.
A prolonged silence followed while I smiled nervously.
Look at you, clutching your wallet and looking around nervously!
Ooh. (Laughs nervously) Clearly.
They just start nervously doing the hokey-pokey.

News and current affairs

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.
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.
In public, as in private life, honest apologies are a powerful tool, and should be used less nervously and more often.

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