nervöst

In a sentence

• Hon skrattade nervöst när hon insåg att hon hade gjort ett misstag.

  She laughed nervously when she realized she had made a mistake.

  The word ‘nervöst’ describes an emotion of nervousness as expressed through a laugh.

• Jag väntade nervöst på att få resultaten från provet.

  I waited nervously to receive the results from the test.

  Here, ‘nervöst’ conveys the state of feeling anxious or uneasy while waiting.

• Barnen såg sig nervöst omkring efter sin försvunna boll.

  The children looked nervously around for their missing ball.

  In this sentence, ‘nervöst’ refers to the manner in which the children acted while searching due to their uneasy feelings.