Synonyms for nimbly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : nim-buhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɪm bəl |
Définition of nimbly
Origin :- mid-14c., from nimble + -ly (adv.).
- adv swiftly
- The devil was large and clumsy, but Sun Wu Kung leaped about nimbly.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- Wilson made his feet and the other followed as nimbly as a cat.
- Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
- Dexter rose, and Dick got to his feet as nimbly as he could.
- Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock
- A rope was thrown him, by the aid of which he nimbly clambered aboard.
- Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.
- And all the idlers were laughing because it was done so nimbly.
- Extract from : « The Young Mountaineers » by Charles Egbert Craddock
- She got up and flew as nimbly as a deer out of the ball-room.
- Extract from : « Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories » by Robert Ford
- Join this bright throng, and nimbly follow whitherThey all are going.
- Extract from : « Endymion » by John Keats
- Handing it to me, he was able to assist Aboh, who nimbly scrambled up.
- Extract from : « The Two Supercargoes » by W.H.G. Kingston
- "My watch on deck," said the old man, springing up as nimbly as a boy.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 » by Various
- How nimbly they would have scaled the fence and transfixed me!
- Extract from : « The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner » by Charles Dudley Warner
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