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  • Her nimble fingers danced on the keyboard.
  • I think of my nimble sister racing through the brush, always just out of my reach.  (source)
  • Her fingers were more nimble now and her stitches were more even.  (source)
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  • He was small and nimble, pacing the school office with his manic yet businesslike movements and mannerisms.  (source)
    nimble = quick and agile
  • Stepping nimbly out of Harry's reach, he pulled a thick wad of envelopes from the inside of the pillowcase he was wearing.  (source)
    nimbly = quickly and easily
  • Van Helsing stepped from the carriage with the eager nimbleness of a boy.  (source)
    nimbleness = quickness and agility
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Kalyani put a steel nimbler of steaming coffee on the table for her husband.†  (source)
  • Then the nimblest among them tightroped back and forth, looping support cables through the lash points the engineer had outlined and screwing them tightly in place with clamps.†  (source)
    nimblest = most quick and agile
  • A nimble officer clambers onto the roof with a canister in his hand.  (source)
    nimble = quick and agile
  • The two kids made their way nimbly down the path from the helipad, and stopped some distance from Gennaro and Hammond.  (source)
    nimbly = quickly and easily
  • Pebbles slithered underfoot and she danced across them without considering the nimbleness required.†  (source)
    nimbleness = quickness and agility
  • The nimbler women fled right and left, the slower men just dropped whatever they had in their hands, and remained petrified with dropping jaws.†  (source)
  • We have the nimblest fancy, a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time.†  (source)
    nimblest = most quick and agile
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