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As even some of Moulton’s supporters acknowledged, the 80-year-old senator still looks spry and sounds with it.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

He’s remarkably spry for his age and, unlike his character in “The Christophers,” goes out regularly, often to the theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

The lean, athletic Mr. Herzog, 83 years old, seems as spry and eager as ever, and his global enthusiasm remains a force of nature in itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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

“She seems so smart and spry, and then, the next moment, she seems to forget — she talks as though her husband were still alive.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

It was easy, in the daytime, for the squirrels to keep out of Fatty's way, when he wandered through the tree-tops, for the squirrels were much sprier than Fatty.

From Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon by Arthur Scott Bailey

But I'm sprier than a chipmunk, save a touch of the lumbago, And they calls me Old Methoosalah, and 'blagues' me all the day.

From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

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

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

And Ms. Bumby is spryer at spotting, and handling, celebrities than her partner.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2011

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

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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

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

Senate's spryest Democrats got set to observe high-seniority birthdays without fuss this week.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spryest and least dependent of them all, the snow-bird, who sports perpetual full dress, jerks at us his expressive tail and is off at the first thaw, black coat, white vest, and all.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various