brisk
Example Sentences
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The resulting volume is a brisk, engaging read that avoids hagiography.
From Los Angeles Times
Then she was on her feet, tramping the ditch at a brisk pace and trying to work out of the rope around her before the horse broke into a trot.
From Literature
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A brisk walk home would dispel the little pinpricks of unease at the edges of my mind.
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A summer sky appears “fitful and whimsical in a brisk north breeze.”
The morning was clear with a brisk wind from the sea.
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