fleetness

Example Sentences

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Sinner's relentlessly clean ball-striking from the back of the court, plus his fleetness of foot when his opponent tried to lure him forward, began to frustrate Alcaraz in the fourth set.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

With stunning fleetness, Mackey here captured both the late, great Dutch composer’s wistful profundity as well as his brassy brazenness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021

All cities develop budgets and set staffing levels while possessing better local knowledge than the Legislature has - and, we dare say, more fleetness of foot.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020

At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2019

Of this horse Mohammed could say, "God made him of a condensation of the southwest wind"; the consummate simile for fleetness and mildness.

From The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend by Dargan, Olive Tilford