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Definition of spry in English: spryadjectivespryer, spryest sprʌɪspraɪ (especially of an old person) active; lively. (尤指老人)充满活力的;活跃的;精力充沛的 he continued to look spry and active well into his eighties 他80多岁时看上去仍精力充沛、充满活力。 Example sentencesExamples - He'd even led me up a flight of stairs, singing a little ditty, seemingly spry and agile and as dapper as any day in his six decades as an entertainer.
- The spry, sparky gent returned to his native Istanbul after a stint in the mid-1990s as director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College.
- We are in the Museum Gardens, and the spry 79-year-old is giving me the official guided tour of York.
- The Hay diet - actually more a way of eating than a diet in the accepted sense - is still having its praises sung by spry 95-year-olds with amazing skin.
- He is aged 77 and looking very spry with it, I must say.
- Stooped but spry, he has the look of a mischievous garden gnome.
- At 52, Moore is still a spry, spunky performer giving all manner of well-rehearsed guitar hero poses.
- James Henry Clark is pretty spry for a man whose caddie career began in the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and has spanned eight decades.
- A spry veteran in grey uniform emerged from the shadows, grabbed his rifle and we squeezed in together.
- Amongst the cast is 84-year-old choreography legend Merce Cunningham - playing the part of Sate - living proof, if it were needed, that a lifetime in dance helps keep you spry.
- My hostess is a spry 81-year-old sporting a perilous arrangement of blue-tinted hair which hints at her past as proprietor of a West End salon called Lilian's.
- Flew is a spry 81, sitting in the living room of his Reading home proclaiming he is ‘willing and eager ‘to explain himself.’
- She is so spry, alert, and enthusiastic that it is difficult to imagine you are talking to a woman in her sixties.
- A revealing interview with The Scientist, simply titled ‘Ernst Mayr, Darwin's Disciple,’ shows how spry he continues to be at age 99.
- There are times when he seems like a spry elderly relative, animated by the prospect of telling old stories to a fresh audience.
- On through the forest I strolled, passing a group of spry elderly women with yellow bags and hemp sandals.
- A small, spry woman of about sixty, she works as a home care nurse.
- Mrs Rendell, who has been a widow for 50 years, is still spry and active, despite a recent leg problem caused by a fall.
- These days, spry and tan at 76, he lives in Brussels, where he runs a committee that is drawing up a pan-European constitution, but he still likes to talk up the ancestral homeland.
- A spry and quick-witted woman that, although in her mid-fifties, still didn't act a day over twenty-five, she had been, and always would be, the person that I truly looked up to the most.
Synonyms sprightly, lively, energetic, active, full of life, full of energy, vigorous, spirited, animated, vivacious, playful, jaunty, perky, frisky, agile, nimble informal chipper, sparkly, zippy, zappy, full of vim and vigour, full of beans North American informal peppy, peart Northern English informal wick archaic frolicsome, sportive, as lively as a grig
Derivativesadverbˈsprʌɪliˈspraɪli Moving quite spryly for a woman her age Mrs. Khan strode to the wide shelf at the back of the room and retrieved a neat red notebook.
nounˈsprʌɪnəsˈspraɪnəs She had been watching birds, which I found to be appropriate, since she had the expressions of a birdwatcher: bookish glasses, and an eternal look of spryness. Example sentencesExamples - Johnson attributes her spryness and stamina to regular exercise: she walks a lot and works out at the New York Sports Club twice a week.
- In the morning Holly had been fine, moving about the property with her usual spryness, but that afternoon Linda found her lying on her side on the lawn, not breathing.
- Perhaps what is most remarkable about this gentleman is his spryness and longevity considering that he never had a professional acting job until 1951, at the age of 69.
- He was small and bent with age yet maintained a spryness that belied his 75 years and the fact that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
OriginMid 18th century: of unknown origin. Rhymesally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai Definition of spry in US English: spryadjectivespraɪsprī (especially of an old person) active; lively. (尤指老人)充满活力的;活跃的;精力充沛的 he continued to look spry and active well into his eighties 他80多岁时看上去仍精力充沛、充满活力。 Example sentencesExamples - James Henry Clark is pretty spry for a man whose caddie career began in the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and has spanned eight decades.
- There are times when he seems like a spry elderly relative, animated by the prospect of telling old stories to a fresh audience.
- On through the forest I strolled, passing a group of spry elderly women with yellow bags and hemp sandals.
- A spry and quick-witted woman that, although in her mid-fifties, still didn't act a day over twenty-five, she had been, and always would be, the person that I truly looked up to the most.
- My hostess is a spry 81-year-old sporting a perilous arrangement of blue-tinted hair which hints at her past as proprietor of a West End salon called Lilian's.
- We are in the Museum Gardens, and the spry 79-year-old is giving me the official guided tour of York.
- At 52, Moore is still a spry, spunky performer giving all manner of well-rehearsed guitar hero poses.
- These days, spry and tan at 76, he lives in Brussels, where he runs a committee that is drawing up a pan-European constitution, but he still likes to talk up the ancestral homeland.
- The Hay diet - actually more a way of eating than a diet in the accepted sense - is still having its praises sung by spry 95-year-olds with amazing skin.
- He'd even led me up a flight of stairs, singing a little ditty, seemingly spry and agile and as dapper as any day in his six decades as an entertainer.
- A revealing interview with The Scientist, simply titled ‘Ernst Mayr, Darwin's Disciple,’ shows how spry he continues to be at age 99.
- The spry, sparky gent returned to his native Istanbul after a stint in the mid-1990s as director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College.
- A small, spry woman of about sixty, she works as a home care nurse.
- Mrs Rendell, who has been a widow for 50 years, is still spry and active, despite a recent leg problem caused by a fall.
- He is aged 77 and looking very spry with it, I must say.
- Flew is a spry 81, sitting in the living room of his Reading home proclaiming he is ‘willing and eager ‘to explain himself.’
- She is so spry, alert, and enthusiastic that it is difficult to imagine you are talking to a woman in her sixties.
- Stooped but spry, he has the look of a mischievous garden gnome.
- A spry veteran in grey uniform emerged from the shadows, grabbed his rifle and we squeezed in together.
- Amongst the cast is 84-year-old choreography legend Merce Cunningham - playing the part of Sate - living proof, if it were needed, that a lifetime in dance helps keep you spry.
Synonyms sprightly, lively, energetic, active, full of life, full of energy, vigorous, spirited, animated, vivacious, playful, jaunty, perky, frisky, agile, nimble
OriginMid 18th century: of unknown origin. |