spry

There is no trace of illness, or wartime privations, or even old age—just a spry, youngish man in a straw hat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

"My ancestors have always remained spry, both mentally and physically, and all remained very active right into their old age," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

“I named him the Visa God,” said Gopalakrishna, a spry 81-year-old who still works at the temple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2025

It’s refreshing to see a romp this spry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

She is faster than I am, spry and probably smarter, although I am twice her size and that, too, is important.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

Two tracks later comes “Hard Piano,” a collaboration with Rick Ross, who’s fresh off a health crisis but has rarely sounded sprier than he does here.

From Slate ● May 29, 2018

Though it has bad word of mouth, “Jonah Hex” is generally better, sprier and more diverting than most of the action flicks now playing, “The A-Team” included.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2010

They are younger, sprier, more active than members of the British House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

How could he know that the mice at the farmhouse were ever so much sprier than he was and that they always trusted to their legs to get them out of harm's way?

From The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse by Eleanor Fagan

Now, with Jasper and Mrs. Jay both flying at him, Frisky had to be sprier than ever.

From The Tale of Frisky Squirrel by Arthur Scott Bailey

As an added turret he has Ann Pennington, erstwhile spriest dancer of many a Ziegfeld Follies.

From Time Magazine Archive

He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer.

From Time Magazine Archive

"They say that you're a great jumper—the spriest jumper in all Pleasant Valley."

From The Tale of Kiddie Katydid by Harry L. Smith

Your father was the spriest koind of a b'y, I'm told.

From The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger

Most importantly, a noticeably leaner and spryer Trout says he feels better than he has in years—and it shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

A week or two dedicated solely to rest and rehabilitation could lead to a spryer Jaquez in the games that matter most.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2022

It’s spryer, friskier and, like the art of her old professor John Baldessari, it comes across its philosophical profundity partly through jest.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020

Wrinkled and gray-haired, with a drooping face that seems designed for a spryer, thinner metal endoskeleton, Mr. Schwarzenegger, the no-longer-quite-so-muscle-bound action star, certainly looks the former.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2015

Aunt Puss was already at her place, so she was spryer than she looked.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Highwayman Whitton is among the oldest of the Kennedy appointees, but may well be one of the spryest.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vigorous essays by the spryest fat man now writing.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That little one is the spryest child I ever saw," said the man with the court-plaster, as Flyaway hovered about the candy-jars, like a butterfly over a flower-bed.

From Dotty Dimple's Flyaway by Sophie May