high-spirited

Example Sentences

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These are high-spirited, action-oriented animals that also embrace new experiences, explains Lau.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Either way, the high-spirited jams are a throwback to a time when you still felt like clapping your hands, and maybe even saying “yeah. “

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025

The event was scriptless, to honor a compromise with striking writers, but chock full of high-spirited Broadway performances drawing raucous cheers from an audience clearly thrilled to be there at all.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023

What might appear violent and aggressive is actually a friendly, high-spirited celebration of music and collective enjoyment.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

This, for me, began a habit that has sustained me for life, keeping a close and high-spirited council of girlfriends—a safe harbor of female wisdom.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama