alacrity

How To Use alacrity In A Sentence

• Although John's grandfather was almost eighty years old, he still moved with alacrity.
• Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity. Times, Sunday Times
• Henry pressed with the alacrity of a bargainer at the negotiating table.
• Other rural names such as poor man's weatherglass allude to the alacrity with which it closes before rain. Times, Sunday Times
• However, the alacrity with which other Nato states have accepted this role suggests they think they have more to benefit from attaching themselves to the US vanguard than opposing it.
• President Vladimir Putin's critics seized the moment with alacrity to portray him as a whimsical megalomaniac.
• Meanwhile, I've gone through the archives with speed and alacrity, but still can't find the name of the hotel.
• My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumbrous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacaphony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)
• Mr. Penrose "skedaddled" after the bell-boy with unmistakable alacrity. The Dude Wrangler
• Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity. Times, Sunday Times