lively

Example Sentences

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The couple was looking for a more lively, centrally located neighborhood than their former town of Groton.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It’s a lively university town with breweries everywhere, bikes zipping past on nearly every street, and the kind of easy smiles and hellos that make Midwest nice feel real.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

It’s lively and funny, but it doesn’t reimagine the film or fully recreate its propulsive energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Palmer, meanwhile, delivered a lively cameo in which he fashioned a glorious chance which substitute Dominic Calvert-Lewin somehow headed wide from six yards, and then set up Ben White's goal with a corner.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

I never got to see much, although I did hear lively Polish music.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson