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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

"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

His original animated “How to Train Your Dragon,” made in collaboration with Chris Sanders, is a 21st-century kiddie classic, a spry and delightful adventure about interspecies empathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

The short, spry blonde woman at my table laughed.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Vigorous essays by the spryest fat man now writing.

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

"He's certainly the spryest peg-legger I ever saw," commented Hiram, admiringly, as the treasure-hunter started away, his cow's-horn divining-rod in position.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day