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
• The monkey was small and agile and took the money and dropped it in a cigar box.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
• Hang-on stands are the smallest and most agile of stand types.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2019
• At metro-traffic speeds the car feels agile and trusty.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• And a team of agile technocrats were on hand to fend off a crisis.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• The question is how far the lean-and-agile approach can go.
  — The Economist, 30 May 2020
• Davis was too strong to defend in the post and too agile for a big man to guard on the perimeter.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• Among the most agile cat breeds are the Bengal and Abyssinian.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
• The goal is to have a business group that is less heavy, smaller and more agile.
  — Candido Mendes, Bloomberg.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• 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
• The 300-pounder is so agile that he was even used as a pass-catching tight end for the Leopards.
  — al, 13 Dec. 2020
• From behind the wheel, the heavier and larger GTI feels less agile than the Si.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• Small, agile and quick, Nunn was touching the third-base bag when the throw was just reaching the cut-off man.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2020
• 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
• In Flea and Chad Smith, the Peppers have one of the most forceful and agile rhythm sections around.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The steering has earned praise for its feedback, and the car feels balanced and agile.
  — Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 27 Oct. 2017
• The Kodak was slim and agile at taking photos on the go.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
• Setting the drive mode to Sport firms up the steering feel and re-tunes the dampers for a more agile feel through corners.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 16 Dec. 2020
• The smaller size is more agile on the water and more compact when stored.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 27 June 2025
• 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
• Like Kazmer, Rubel had a knock-down jumper from up to 15 feet and was agile enough to score against the state’s top defenders.
  — Britni De La Cretaz, Longreads, 14 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The opener, a looping header back across goal, was another that a more agile keeper might have stopped.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
• Modern citizen-soldiers and airmen must be agile and flexible, as demonstrated by our Guard members responding to missions both at home and abroad.
  — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025