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Meanings of spry in English

Moving quickly and lightly.

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Examples for "quick"
1
Political parties said it was too quick to call the election result.
Reuters
2
Use this form as a quick-and-dirty way to create a new file.
Unix power tools, 3rd edition
3
But voters want quick action on climate change, according to opinion polls.
Reuters
4
I believe food can be good and healthy and quick and simple.
Reuters
5
Mr Humm said farmers needed quick and accurate information about the outbreak.
Radio NZ
1
Do you imagine she has given up communing with nimble young gentlemen?
Wolf hall
2
Governments are anything but nimble, let alone open, in their decision-making processes.
Wired
3
These nimble operators not only help students cheat their way into universities.
Reuters
4
Still young and nimble, John Maclean has already had two successful careers.
The Irish Times
5
Feel that you have these strong and nimble elements in your body.
The Michael Chekhov Handbook
1
The Brazilian government needs to be more agile with this, he said.
The Guardian
2
Hisresearch interests include database systems, versioning systems,semantic web, and agile software development.
Mysql high availability
3
However, it was quite agile on the trail and on the rock.
Climbing Magazine
4
It's a small one, an agile number with a lot of glass.
Snow Crash
5
Traditional data centers are not as agile or flexible in meeting demand.
Reuters
Usage of spry in English
1
I always heard that they were spry enough in their own way.
The Ball and the Cross
2
The more spry went to the rails and called to the mer.
Surrender to the will of the night
3
Ye look spry 'nough now, he shouted in his best quarter-deck voice.
The Tides of Barnegat
4
And I am not as spry as I was ten years ago.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
5
A fall on the leaves didn't hurt a spry fellow like him.
The Woodlanders
6
Yes; but you're a mile bigger and heavier, and you're spry, too.
Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N...
7
The giver was his godmother, a spry older woman named Donna Bondi.
The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
8
YOU might get through, ef you war spry, but not your hoss.
A Sappho of Green Springs
9
I wouldn't expect a rope dancer to live here and stay spry.
Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
10
You'd better be spry if you want to go along with 'em.
In the Valley
11
Why, Bart, she's spry as a cricket and pretty as a picture.
The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
12
Leave that man there, and look spry, or you'll feel mighty sorry.
Rodman the Boatsteerer, and Other Stories / 1898
13
No, Sir, Granny Fox isn't as spry as she used to be.
Old Granny Fox
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You're mighty spry and clever, but you didn't catch on just then.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
15
Oh, no, my old bones are not spry enough for quick climbing.
A Chinese Wonder Book
16
Zeke didn't know how to feel as he followed her spry, sidestepping climb.
Boneshaker
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