fleetness

Example Sentences

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The early signs are she remains the same talent, showing glimpses of her explosive shot-making and fleetness of foot on her return in Brisbane last week.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2024

And the Scherzo showed that Thomas was in no slow-tempo mode: The music whisked by with fleetness and crackling rhythms.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021

All cities develop budgets and set staffing levels while possessing better local knowledge than the Legislature has - and, we dare say, more fleetness of foot.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020

At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2019

This marvelous horse passed successively into Hercules’ and Adrastus’ hands; and the latter won all the chariot races, thanks to his fleetness.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)