nimble
IPA: nˈɪmbʌɫ
verb
- (intransitive) To move nimbly.
adjective
- Adept at taking or grasping.
- Quick and light in movement or action.
- Quickwitted and alert.
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Examples of "nimble" in Sentences
- We must remain nimble, flexible and prepared to compete as a region.
- Smaller companies are able to be more nimble, that is clearly the case.
- Hermod, called the nimble, an older brother of Baldur, said he would go.
- The BOE would have to be "nimble" in responding to changes in the economic outlook, it added.
- By my soul, I know not what Tom Price calls nimble men; but I could have walked as far on foot in the time.
- Why do we not always build our towns, when we can, on heights, in what Shakespeare calls nimble and sweet air?
- The suspension is pillow-soft, and a front-wheel-drive car approaching 2 tons can't be called nimble, but the chassis felt tight and Fusion was sure-footed.
- Last week, Christine Lagarde said the UK needed to be "nimble" - an indication that while the IMF backs George Osborne's Plan A today, the fiscal consolidation may need tweeking if the global economic climate worsens.
- It will be observed that the bear, after having pursued me for a few yards, turned and went on his way, but had I not been nimble -- in other words, had I been completely invested by the bear and thrown down -- he might, as the natives would phrase it, have made my wife a widow.
- Three weeks he lay upon that narrow white bed, and learned to face the battalion of eyes from the other narrow beds around him; learned to distinguish the quiet sounds of the marble lined room from the rumble of the unknown city without; and when the nimble was the loudest his heart ached with the thought of the alley and all the horrible sights and sounds that seemed written in letters of fire across his spirit.
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