Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an agile or nimble manner; with agility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an agile manner; nimbly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
agile manner; withagility .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease
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Examples
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He crossed the stream below the pool, stepping agilely from stone to stone.
All Gold Canon 2010
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A 9-foot-long "cargo" bicycle, featuring a super-stiff 48-pound frame and a wood platform that was able to maneuver agilely while carrying 400 pounds.
Reinventing the Two-Wheeler Nancy Keates 2011
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It agilely banked around several crisscrossing robots, and came to a screeching stop a few feet away.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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He crossed the stream below the pool, stepping agilely from stone to stone.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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A nine-foot-long "cargo" bicycle that has a super-stiff 48-pound frame, built in dynamo powered lights, a wood platform that can maneuver agilely while carrying 400 lbs., and quick-release wheels.
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It agilely banked around several crisscrossing robots, and came to a screeching stop a few feet away.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Ambiguity is what affords actors deniability: while advancing their own agendas, they agilely defy scrutiny and public accountability.
Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : What Blackwater Sells (and the Government Wants): Deniability Janine R. Wedel 2010
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Maybe we Texas have just learned to agilely avoid it's attempts, or we've made nice and now it let's us stay.
Happy Wending! 2010
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She had grabbed and caught a stony protrusion at the cave entrance and agilely scrambled in.
Cattle Town 2010
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Ambiguity is what affords actors deniability: while advancing their own agendas, they agilely defy scrutiny and public accountability.
Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : What Blackwater Sells (and the Government Wants): Deniability 2010
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