vigor

Example Sentences

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“Amongst Women” revolves around Michael Moran, a widowed farmer who rules his family with pitiless vigor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

"Subsecond dopamine fluctuations do not specify the vigor of ongoing actions" by Haixin Liu and Nicolas Tritsch et al., was published in Nature Neuroscience.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

Vital, by Merriam-Webster’s definition, implies a work that is “tending to renew or refresh the living,” full of life and vigor, and, what do you know, animated.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

But for a while Wednesday, that vigor was conspicuously absent against Texas San Antonio, a team that lost four of its last five.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

He was a strange-looking figure, broad and muscular, with the vigor of an ancient but sturdy tree.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander