How to Use nonchalantly in a Sentence

nonchalantly

adverb
  • One blueprint for aura farming comes courtesy of a viral video of a boy dancing nonchalantly on a race boat.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Sub a V-neck sweater for a sheer, whisper-thin knit, and wear the jacket open, nonchalantly buttoned, or wrapped around the waist.
    — Minty Mellon, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And both dismantle pop's walls by nonchalantly leaping over musical styles and bringing a new audience along with them.
    — EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Yet the movie shows no struggle, no introspection, but, rather, a nonchalantly reasonable ability to drop his stash into a garbage can and walk away.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Other officers down the road nonchalantly mingled and lingered.
    — Charlotte Observer, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The couple’s dog Roux also made a cameo, rushing around the side of the couch to see what the commotion was all about before nonchalantly turning and walking away.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Yet without a single footwork adjustment, Cherki trots up and nonchalantly whips a half-volley into the top corner.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Another video shows a different agent (who seconds later kills the driver) nonchalantly walking around the driver’s car (on the passenger side) recording his own video.
    — Michael McAuliffe, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
  • These poems invent verbal models of movement through time, their own temporal construction also serving as their subject, always nonchalantly expressed.
    — Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • And then, right as Joe’s already prevalent rage is on the precipice of going nuclear, a CGI giraffe nonchalantly strolls past a third-story window in the background.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In his mesmerizing, rat-a-tat, expletive-riddled style, Evans nonchalantly recalls the almost unbelievable trajectory of his life, leaving the reader barely able to catch her breath.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In the milky blue below my Prestige stateroom balcony, two large Chrysaora jellyfish pulsed nonchalantly along the hull of Ponant's 466-foot Le Soléal.
    — Kate Crockett, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In this one, the Lakers nonchalantly dug a 26-point hole but cared enough in the second half to chop down the deficit to 93-91, on a one-footed fadeaway 3-pointer from Luka Doncic.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And at Loewe, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez brought their vision to the legacy accessories range with new laptop-sized top-handle bags, carried nonchalantly unzipped with the interior anagram visible.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025

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