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How to use sprightly in a sentence

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I had a very short nap, woke, leapt out of bed full of beans and sprightly as a 40-year old.
His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame.
Be warned that the gentle pizza bread that arrives at all tables, along with a sprightly pesto dip, can ruin your appetite for the pizza to come.
I like to think that the sprightly wit and defiant attitude are typical of McCay himself.
Through her fingers, the piece turns sprightly even before the tala leaps in.
Even if linked to a typically American automatic gearbox of only four speeds, it has sprightly performance.
On the road, this proved to be a particularly nippy car about town, pulling off from junctions with a sprightly performance.
But would these sprightly veterans have been better advised to avoid the stresses and strains of full-time toil in old age?
They knew there was a lot more to this warm, witty, sparkly and sprightly show than just the title song.
A single musician played a sprightly tune on a curious stringed instrument with two necks.
He was sprightly, inquisitive, interesting and, in some respects, representative of the other passengers.
The Party's central organ, once the epitome of dullness, has had to brighten itself up to compete against more sprightly daily newspapers.
The singer has an even, rounded tone, an apposite feeling for ornament and an ability to phrase with sprightly elegance.
The sprightly, grey-haired woman, it seems, meets everyone who walks in the door with the same enthusiastic greeting.
The serious work is being done by a sprightly black-and-white Border collie named Jessie.
The sprightly energumen lives and breathes his words on the stage for 53 minutes.
A sprightly woman wrings her hands as if flirtatiously sizing up a fellow resident at the nursing home.
There was an amusing final theatrical flourish from the Conservative candidate, John Taylor, a sprightly 63-year-old.
His lover, Mercedes, is a sprightly dancer who would have benefited from a brighter costume.
He looked as lively and sprightly as ever despite now being in his mid forties.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Compared to the measured march of Bossuet's sentences, Voltaire's sprightly periods remind one almost of a pirouette.
He was very sprightly and elate, but I was in no sort of mood to share in his buoyancy.
But, for example, the sprightly little woman was very sure of it, she said.
Certainly he can have no congeniality of feeling with the sprightly Bobolink.
Craske is an East Anglian word for fat, and crouse is used in the north for sprightly, confident.
This sprightly summer cheese is generously sprinkled with the local brandy and festively wrapped in fresh green leaves.
Pretty Beppy is before us, as sprightly and as loveable as she was in life.
I'm right glad poor Mr. Amyas should find a sprightly young lady to cure him of his mopishness.
Sparsit interposed, with sprightly cheerfulness, 'don't disparage your judgment.
But Barrs was too sprightly a spirit to remain a mystagogue.
Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection.
He was one of those enviable people who at a sprightly 70 plus, plus, plus, could outwalk the younger guns from the local shoot.
The master of Westover was a treasure house of sprightly lore.
The numbers are smooth and sprightly, and the diction is seldom faulty.
So, indeed, had the young contessa prophesied, in sprightly conclusion.
The harmonica then played a little sprightly motif, in six-eight.
Let them be sprightly, and, if possible, have a snapper at the end.
Her words were sprightly enough, but her face had clouded over.
Coraline was not so sprightly as Camille, but she was prettier.
She must on no account be offered for sale, unless, indeed, it be in heroic poems, moving tragedies, or sprightly and ingenious comedies.
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