How to Use agile in a Sentence

agile

adjective

• Leopards are very fast and agile.
• She’s the daughter of the heads of the Omaticaya tribe of Na’vi, and an agile hunter and warrior.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
• And a team of agile technocrats were on hand to fend off a crisis.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Teichmann played an agile game at the top of the court, pulling in some of her best points of the match from that point.
  — Jayna Bardahl, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2021
• The team is quick, agile and strong with sophomore QB Brady Palmer the leader.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• Mayfield is agile, quick out of his stance as a run blocker and can be a force in the screen game.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• Williams is agile enough to make quick cuts from outside arc to the rim and strong enough to contest big men in the paint.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2022
• The strength of Mater Dei’s defense has been its agile, quick linebackers.
  — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• The males, who often have white spots where their scales have been rubbed off in clashes, have to be agile.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2022
• McGee appears to be the most agile and elusive and Cardwell is an all-around back.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
• To our surprise, the Rover felt as agile as a supercar.
  — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• The agile and versatile senior had caught the eye of Montzingo for quite a while.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 28 June 2021
• Most people that age are not that agile and would just throw on something.
  — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 10 Aug. 2021
• That should help deliver a smoother ride, if not a more agile one.
  — Kyle Schnitzer, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2022
• As a smaller and more agile business, speed is your friend.
  — Sarah Bird, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Start small, be scrappy and agile and see how the metrics are trending.
  — Raghu Gollamudi, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• Filipino boxers are known to be swift, agile, and wily.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 23 July 2021
• Colbert was game the whole way, an agile scene partner.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
• If the goalie is agile enough to deflect it, the impact alone might feel different.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Rahim is an agile and clever host, always ready with a follow-up question that hits the mark.
  — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
• Cox took the piece at an agile tempo, drawing a light and zingy sound from the orchestra.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• The 214-million-year-old skull of Coelophysis, an agile hunter that walked on two legs, spent about nine days in space.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• The agile Duarte’s leaps and turns, as Chinese, are flanked by two adorable dragon puppets.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2021
• Her warm, agile vocal brings a note of grace to the song’s devil-may-care atmosphere.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 8 May 2023
• Wish that Yamamoto will be like David; who was small, agile, a quick thinker … and had a great throwing arm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• The second is a cyclocopter which can hover stably and is agile in the air.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
• Full-bodied yet agile and fresh with a fine tannin structure that runs the length of the wine and goes on forever.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2022
• These slim, agile, gray and white dolphins are most famous for leaping out of the ocean and spinning in circles in the air.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
• Katz is more agile than might be expected, and the mix of his movements with the contemplativeness of his gaze is transfixing over the course of close to an hour.
  — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 13 Dec. 2024
• Her agile lower extremities might lead you to believe that Foster is made of rubber.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025