sprightful

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprightful
Adjective
  • The moments in which the camera captures her toned form and her sprightly movements are exciting and impressive.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Her voluminous silhouettes take up space and demand to be noticed, as do her sprightly florals or upbeat silky pastels.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Azerbaijan has also tried to bully and threaten its way into disingenuous peace deals with Armenia while plotting with Turkey, a key ally, in taking sovereign lands away from Armenia including the Zangezur Corridor, a vital trade route located between the two countries.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • These cuts could significantly impact vital resources and programs that communities depend on.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to uncover more details — a process that could soon involve the most powerful observatory ever launched into space.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
  • His motivation could be to control something very powerful or just to slow down OpenAI in order to allow XAI to improve—seize the new market opportunity—or to break up OpenAI and render his competition obsolete.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Your celestial ruler is sitting directly across from you in Aries, but this doesn’t make its vivacious presence any less enticing.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In the morning, at the conclusion of light group aerobics, the vivacious American woman approached me.
    Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • While the brand is only five years old, Florentina has been quite energetic in putting out 15 collections.
    Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The collection includes portraits of McCartney’s bandmates—John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—as well as evocative self-portraits and energetic scenes captured through car windows as the band navigated the chaos of their newfound fame.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Twelve minutes before tipoff, Gottlieb finishes his spirited pregame speech by declaring the Phoenix to be the hungriest team in America, then walks into a spartan coaches’ locker room.
    Brian Hamilton, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Those hometown supporters turned out to include not only the spirited crowds flocking to Barclays Center for games, but local hip-hop legends like Fat Joe, Ja Rule and Jadakiss.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike many children’s TV shows, the animated CoComelon doesn’t feature celebrity cameos—but CoComelon Classroom does.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The longer answer: Yes, animated shows do have some analogous production techniques to the live-action bottle episode.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Hot team Playing arguably the toughest schedule in the county, St. Augustine’s boys basketball team started the season 3-12.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
  • His positioning and angles are second to none, making tough saves look easy on a nightly basis in the NHL.
    Jesse Granger, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Sprightful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprightful. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.

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