fleetness
- a word derived from fleet.
Example Sentences
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The early signs are she remains the same talent, showing glimpses of her explosive shot-making and fleetness of foot on her return in Brisbane last week.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
All cities develop budgets and set staffing levels while possessing better local knowledge than the Legislature has - and, we dare say, more fleetness of foot.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2019
His feet tap dance on the organ pedals with a fleetness that puts Fred Astaire to shame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2019
A deer, bounding with the fleetness of the wind to escape his destroyers, had reached the river's edge.
From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.
