spry

How To Use spry In A Sentence

• I advised Spry to mount a SATYR operation, and demonstrated the device to him.
• She would laugh up at him and pat his shoulder and that shoulder would straighten spryly and he would waggle his head doggishly. Gigolo
• 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.
• She makes some stuff which she calls farina out of it, and grieves bitterly that she is no longer young and spry enough to gather it for herself along the shore. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
• An 'a spry an' likely crew: Sam Small never lacked the pick o 'the swilin'-boys when it come t' fittin 'out for the ice in the spring o' the year. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
• James Henry Clark is pretty spry for a man whose caddie career began in the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and has spanned eight decades.
• At 52, Moore is still a spry, spunky performer giving all manner of well-rehearsed guitar hero poses.
• Created by the founder of Le Cordon Bleu cookery school, Rosemary Hume – rather than her better-known business partner, celebrity florist Constance Spry, as is often claimed – poulet reine Elizabeth, as it was originally known, was a deliberate and tactful compromise between the luxurious and the thrifty for a country still under the dreary yoke of postwar rationing. How to cook perfect coronation chicken
• 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.
• What a spry little thing you was, a-hoppin 'about among the mahogany and walnut stuff like a young sparrer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867