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How to use sprightliness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sprightliness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
A spare but rather comely man, he possessed no small sprightliness of talents, and a great readiness of speech.
If I was known for my sprightliness on the field, it was because I gave everything to be fit and healthy.
Yet it was their sprightliness in attack, their urgency in scampering forward, that characterised the early exchanges at Rugby Park.
All that was left was for French to show his enduring sprightliness with the clincher 11 minutes from time.
Her manifest desire to please — her labor-intensive, exhausting sprightliness — began to feel as discomfiting as an overattentive party host.
It will not be a gruelling study, for the sprightliness of Mrs. Post's style makes the text-book as fascinating as it is instructive.
All his rebellion is there, but somehow the scene zings with more sprightliness than gloom, and there is still a twist to come.
She was an engaging little creature, full of sprightliness and life.
A sprightliness was certainly evident after the interval, as though a few reprimands were still echoing in the players' minds.
The telling of the tale, to be fair, has patches of sprightliness and zip.
Tyler is more than six feet tall, with a deep, resonant voice, but he moves with the sprightliness of a little kid, pausing for the occasional coughing fit brought on by asthma.
Thus Lambrusco Sorbara, with its distinguished aromatic notes, heightened acidity, lightness and sprightliness ideally fits with all dishes from filled macaroni to dzampogne.
Examples from Classical Literature
All the playfulness and sprightliness she had hitherto displayed was now changed to gravity and sedateness.
If you have thought me happy heretofore, you will now be astonished at my sprightliness.
There was an absence of sprightliness in Gray's manner at the office that day.
With this studiousness was joined a gaiety and sprightliness that manifested itself in all sorts of fun and mischief.
She would dance a coranto, that the French Ambassador, hidden behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master.
She has lost all her sprightliness, and vapours me but to look at her.
In compass, in melody, in sprightliness, it is a remarkable songster.
He thought her smile affected, and the coy sprightliness of her manner irritated him.
The pulp is sweet and juicy but is lacking in sprightliness.
Never was the fandango danced with more grace and sprightliness.
He wondered at the ability and the sprightliness of the little fellow.
And yet with what ease and sprightliness they chattered to him!
There were no traces of that beauty and sprightliness remaining.
You shall not shake me off, for all that,' replied Miss La Creevy, with as much sprightliness as she could assume.
This is an old room,' he remarked, with a sudden sprightliness of manner, looking round when he got near the door, 'I have been so interested that I have not observed it.
But he was very tentative, fastidiously so, letting Ruth set the pace of sprightliness and fancy, keeping up with her but never daring to go beyond her.
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