fleetly

Example Sentences

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There’s no accounting for when a show will speak to you, but this fleetly staged, sensationally acted touring production is first-rate all around.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024

In the bathtub, Bella hummed to herself: “I’m glad to go, I cannot tell a lie. I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly.”

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

On Misha Kachman’s nightclub set, with metallic curtains and a long runway bisecting the theater, Gardiner maneuvers his actors and dancers fleetly, on the show’s grand and tragic march from the two-step to the goose-step.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2015

Although “Super 8” moves fleetly and clocks in at well under two hours, it doesn’t hurry explanations, and the buildup to the movie, like that to “Cloverfield,” has been assiduously vague.

From New York Times • May 29, 2011

Frankie’s hands move fleetly, but I’ve got a good eye.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz