Definitions
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- adverb In a
spry manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He exited the train and spryly scaled the stairs to the street like a man half his age.
V-J Day Mary Alston Capps 2011
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Never one to resort to simple open chord strums, Matthews spryly plucked circular ostinatos and buoyant chordal riffs to power the band's string of memorable hits.
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The ranks of the crowd parted reluctantly as the horse, a strong bay, poked its long nose between two sets of shoulders, Before the astonished eyes of everyone-including me-the sticklike figure of Ned Gowan spryly dismounted.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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A dead one of these. hand held more spryly, right side up
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She trotted—rather spryly—up the sidewalk and into my house.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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She trotted—rather spryly—up the sidewalk and into my house.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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She trotted—rather spryly—up the sidewalk and into my house.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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I manage to find out, before she hops spryly off the bus for her three-times-a-week swimming session at the Y, that she is 85.
Grace Babakhanian: Campaign Journal: "Everyone Who Told Me I Wouldn't Amount To Much Is Now Dead" 2008
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Last month, he spryly led a tour of his workshop and the house the couple built in 1961.
Jimmy Carter 2008
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The passenger, a wisp of a woman, flew free of the wreckage and landed spryly.
Orbit Books Free Sample SciFi Fantasy Book: The Future Is Now 30 | SciFi UK Review 2005
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