Example Sentences

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Staged in the round, this modern version of “An Enemy of the People” preserves the period atmosphere of Ibsen’s 1882 drama but allows the work a modern spryness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

And yet the play sustains a spryness of tone.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

Sadly, much of Roks’ spryness on the course did, though, as he crept into his mid-40s and his golf game deteriorated.

From Golf Digest • Dec. 24, 2019

The film, as a whole, is missing the humor and spryness that was promised.

From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2016

And with that he put his fishing pole over his shoulder and prepared to leave—a tall, strong-looking old man with long legs and knotty wrists, who moved across the deck with surprising spryness.

From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don