Nimble

//ˈnɪmbl̩//

"Nimble" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Squirrels are nimble in climbing trees.

He has a nimble mind.

I was going to take a picture of a squirrel I found in the park, but it was too nimble, and all my shots were no good.

Poor cat! She can't catch the nimble mouse.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

Tom is still nimble.

She then rose up and fled, as nimble as a deer.

This urchin was so nimble, that it was utterly impossible to lay hold of him.

As he spoke, his nimble fingers were flying here, there, and everywhere, feeling, pressing, unbuttoning, examining, while his eyes wore the same far-away expression which I have already remarked upon.

"Considering humans are monkeys, they're not very nimble in the trees." "Some monkeys live on the ground, Tom."

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He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.

[…] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such a mess of Musick be?

Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.

The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.

He has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.

"It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]

Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.

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