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

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

Tiler Peck dances with a fleetness so astonishing, it’s as if her feet were made of wings.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2018

But such is this animal's extraordinary fleetness and wind, that a single horse has no chance of outrunning it, or tiring it down; and the hunters are therefore obliged to resort to stratagem.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas