Example Sentences

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Windward attracts hearty, alacritous clients of all ages and experience levels.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023

With each alacritous tale of somebody trying to tame or take a Hammons, a kind of pungency set in.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

About the size of a toddler, Moxie has a teardrop-shaped head, soft hands and alacritous green eyes.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

A quiet and refreshing night's rest followed, and alacritous waking in the morning; but all this was far more probably owing, as has been already hinted, to excellent and well-considered habits of diet and exercise.

From The Dolliver Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

"That was why I was so alacritous to go."

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary