briskly

How To Use briskly In A Sentence

• The blow to his head must have concussed him, for he saw two middle-aged women straighten up and walk briskly to the I.V. unit.
• Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
• Beat the eggs whites briskly until soft peaks form.
• He tried to give her a kiss on the cheek but she resisted his advance and pushed him away from her face briskly.
• I answered briskly, for there was no time to be circumlocutional. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
• In Lima, a Peruvian guide warned us not to go out on foot and, if so, to walk briskly.
• With 320 students in snappy blue and white uniforms playing shiny trumpets, trombones and tubas as they march in briskly changing formations, the band's numbers are full of razzmatazz.
• I walked briskly up the driveway of Sean's house, the street light illuminating me.
• ‘I think it would be best if I took my own daughter home,’ Mr. Ainsley responded briskly with a hint of dubiousness.
• While the protoplasm in the animal section of the ovum continues briskly to divide, multiplying the nuclei, the deutoplasm in the vegetal section remains more or less undivided; it is merely consumed as food by the forming cells. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1