friskiness

Example Sentences

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The Cardinals’ friskiness is being chatted about because of preseason expectations, but they’ve quietly been drubbed the last three weeks, losing by more than two touchdowns in all three weeks while failing to cover.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

Anyone who watched him as a young assistant in Washington could see that he loved the game with a kid’s friskiness.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022

The musical, derived from Sidney’s “Arcadia,” was always designed for theatrical friskiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2021

Dilyn's friskiness is "endless", he explained as he chatted to officers at Surrey Police's HQ in Guildford.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2021

She believed that a certain amount of friskiness was as necessary to young human beings as it is to colts, but later both must be harnessed and made to work.

From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Jewett, Sarah Orne