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Definition of nimble:

  • (adjective) mentally quick
  • (adjective) moving quickly and lightly

Sentence Examples:

Then Nimble began to whine.

And its nimble eddies were wonderful!

How are your melons, Nimble Jim?

Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.

Nimble Dick looked much more approachable.

See them clamber, these nimble apes!

"I wish he'd hurry," Nimble muttered.

Ah, he runs with nimble gait!

Nimble Jim don't seem to like melons!

Dave's footwork was as nimble as ever.

Ready-to-halt knocked out of his nimble crutch.

With nimble fingers Jean reloaded his rifle.

"I might have known it," Nimble muttered.

What keeps you so nimble and limber?

What has startled the nimble little mouse?

Guess how he vexed the nimble Archie.

They are prodigiously nimble from their infancy.

It is a splendidly nimble and spirited performance.

A tongue that neither is nimble nor tart.

She was nimble and poetical with her pencil.

It rustles under the feet of the nimble pages.

Oh, you have a hand as dexterous as it's nimble.

A Fenian had also to be very nimble and supple.

How nimble and graceful, how fawn-like she was!

In nimble, the acuteness of the vowel denotes celerity.

Her sallow, nimble fingers never paused in their work.

If he was strong, she was wiry and nimble.

The muscles of his wings are very nimble workmen.

That nimble deity had a stork at his feet.

How he spurned the ground with his nimble feet!

As well try to catch eels, as those nimble urchins.

She fairly coursed about the room on her nimble crutches.

She hated education, and was afraid of its nimble trickery.

Nimble aerial creatures swung, invisibly passive, in the quiet dark.

Nimble as they are, not infrequently some of them are drowned.

He is fat, and unbelievably nimble, and keen-eyed, and untiring.

"Those antlers remind me of Nimble Deer's," Billy Woodchuck remarked.

Figuratively, we speak of nimble wit, swift intelligence, swift destruction.

All at once Nimble leaped quickly upon his slightly wobbly legs.

With nimble fingers Ian sewed a patch of bark over it.

A whirling Susan on the supper table is not more nimble.

Nimble vessels were despatched in search of him in every direction.

She unwrapped the fiddle and tuned it with nimble fingers.

For they fought not in battle with the nimble rapier.

How the nimble fingers flew to cull the glistening piles!

"You outrun me with your nimble and practiced wit," said I, smiling.

Those who were not nimble enough were knocked down, trampled underfoot.

Such audacity to the most nimble imagination was all but inconceivable.

The outlaw obeyed, taking the trail once more with nimble step.

And dancers nimble as wild goat, smooth and gracious as swan.

These crank and nimble spinners give you no chance of looking about.

The mounts are docile, hardy and nimble, with large reserves available.

Mean sour melons, Crooked green melons, Nimble Jim only can grow!

The Illinois were nimble, well-formed people, skillful with bow and arrow.

Then her nimble fingers flew at the cinches of the saddle.

The nimble fingers moved very rapidly as she folded the gauze.

Somebody else probably got broken shoulders before your nimble progenitor took possession.

The unwieldy monster seemed to be no match for his nimble antagonists.

A short scurry of nimble steps brought her up to the sables.

It is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over.

Already I imagine myself a nimble little maggot making the cheese fly.

I said that a light, nimble person could have climbed the trellis.

Jack was nimble, but the ogre's stride was twice as long.

His mind was supple and flexible, his wits nimble, even subtle.

The unsuspecting spy went flat, the nimble Hiram astride of him.

He was light, nimble, and dexterous, and fit for all exercises.

Then he leaves them and rides ahead on a good and nimble steed.

What a nimble agility, what a motive power, in that curt, imperative word!

The young French girl who guided us was as nimble as a goat.

Now he must be nimble for his strength was rapidly ebbing away.

His eyes were fastened steadily on the nimble brown fingers of the dealer.

Every man was more nimble, more talkative and more pleasant than ever before.

He was, I could see, hastily collecting his sufficiently nimble powers of subterfuge.

It was adroit, nimble fencing, but I wondered how much it amused her.

Perhaps you stroke your sagacious beard and give a nimble reason for the lightning.

These charming improvisations turned the children's heads and made their legs nimble.

His clean-shaven, busy, little face was enlightened by nimble, red-brown, squirrel-like eyes.

Replied the charming little witch, as her nimble fingers fastened my wrappings.

The modern mind may be more nimble, as the modern work is more expeditious.

Jones pulled it tight, then fastened it with nimble fingers to the tree.

Some I killed, but the others being more nimble than the rattlesnakes, escaped.

I heard the nimble stepping of the pony's hoofs on the worn turf.

Yet early the next morning, none was more nimble and jovial than he.

Her nimble fingers unwound it quickly, and she spread out the soiled rag.

Its feet are nimble and fleet, but yet full of vigor and expressiveness.

In nutting, the squirrel is not more nimble and industrious than the boy.

Fat Ed Meyers was out and standing beside her, his movements unbelievably nimble.

He exclaimed, his nimble fingers running rapidly over the boy's face and figure.

Now, as you know, Sandy Chipmunk was not the most nimble of climbers.

Nimble hands soon put them into the shafts or repaired any irregularity of harness.

He was mounted on a nimble pony, and flogging it to its utmost speed.

He is usually one of the first to arrive, with nimble, almost springy, step.

Thereupon he jumped up as nimble as a monkey, and ran for his life.

The nerves are braced, the imagination is agreeably stirred, the wits become more nimble.

They are very dexterous and nimble, but withal lazy in the high degree.

"And gave them the adroitly nimble fingers to fit the pockets they pick."

Log felt his strength waning while the Monster seemed more nimble than ever.

Molly said nothing, but kept watching Cynthia's nimble fingers tying up the wreath.

Geoffrey had a nimble quill pen with which to follow his nimble wit.

A row of nimble bodies wilted before him, went down as grain before a scythe.