How to Use agile in a Sentence

agile

adjective

• Leopards are very fast and agile.
• 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
• Today, with 357% more remote work job postings, agile is even more valid than ever.
  — Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Spiller is quick, agile and most importantly, physical.
  — Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
• Whiteside, honestly, is also much slower than Gobert, much less agile.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
• With suspension and transmission tuning, the four-wheeler is also plenty agile and perfect for quick escapes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2021
• For decades, roboticists have pored over other living creatures, such as the gecko and the cockroach, in their quest to build agile robots that can conquer challenging situations.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2021
• Solutions [such as standardization] have to be agile enough to respond to technological progress because this progress can actually provide a lot of benefit on its own.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The team is quick, agile and strong with sophomore QB Brady Palmer the leader.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• 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
• To our surprise, the Rover felt as agile as a supercar.
  — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• That should help deliver a smoother ride, if not a more agile one.
  — Kyle Schnitzer, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2022
• Start small, be scrappy and agile and see how the metrics are trending.
  — Raghu Gollamudi, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• 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
• Gauff is a quick and agile mover, able to transition from offense and defense on a dime.
  — Liz Clarke, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• Quick and agile enough, but not the sort of otherworldly athlete who’d turn heads.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Jan. 2023
• There was no debate, however, whether the Navigator was agile.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024
• At a more fundamental level, governments must shift the emphasis from passing laws to enforcing them in an agile manner.
  — Marietje Schaake, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024