[
UK
/spɹˈaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈspɹaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɹaɪ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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moving quickly and lightly
the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it
nimble fingers
quick of foot
as nimble as a deer
sleek and agile as a gymnast
How To Use spry In A Sentence
- 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. Tuesday Tune: 'Satellite' by The Dave Matthews Band
- Mrs Rendell, who has been a widow for 50 years, is still spry and active, despite a recent leg problem caused by a fall.
- A small, spry woman of about sixty, she works as a home care nurse.
- Other chemicals Spry discussed include peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, formalin, and methyl methacrylate.
- At 6 A.M. there was a simple breakfast of biscuit and cocoa and then all hands started preparations for the day's dredging and sounding operations, furling the sails while William Spry and his mates made steam down below in the engine room.
- Amongst the cast is 84-year-old choreography legend Merce Cunningham - playing the part of Sate - living proof, if it were needed, that a lifetime in dance helps keep you spry.
- The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber. Ulysses
- My former colleague is now well into his 90s, but is as spry and fit as the day when he swam out to meet the submarine sent to take him back to his adoptive homeland.
- A popular shrub rose that can be trained as a climber is Constance Spry with huge clusters of pale pink blooms.
- Other chemicals Spry discussed include peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, formalin, and methyl methacrylate.