brisk
Example Sentences
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“D” words roll smoothly into their brisk train-going-down-a-track-type tempo, often referred to as the “cattle rattle.”
Reaves was “continuing to push himself” to return soon, Redick said, and Ayton had some “swelling” in his elbow but had a “brisk, intense individual workout.”
From Los Angeles Times
It will be a much drier day overall, with patchy rain and brisk winds developing in the far west later on.
From BBC
Most companies aren’t cutting workers en masse, but they also aren’t hiring at a brisk pace owing to a variety of concerns, including uncertainty over how tariffs will affect their bottom lines.
Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
