How to Use alacrity in a Sentence

alacrity

noun

• She accepted the invitation with an alacrity that surprised me.
• So many people embraced the one click life with alacrity.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 25 Mar. 2021
• So there is no reason to be moving with too much alacrity.
  — Eric Morath, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• Remove and serve with alacrity and joy and salsa and/or sour cream.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2020
• Lately, the periods of alarm and alacrity seem to have shortened.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• The world moves with the alacrity of an Aroldis Chapman fastball.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2017
• His writing is colorful and his narrative moves with all of the alacrity of a Bourne movie.
  — John Ortved, Vogue, 30 June 2017
• Kansas is acting with healthy alacrity, as if the coach and momentum matter.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2021
• Can it be ridden on the interstate with moderate alacrity?
  — Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
• But equally troubling is the alacrity with which Japan imposed trade sanctions.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• The results themselves would have had a similar impact even had they been announced with alacrity.
  — Noah Millman, TheWeek, 6 Feb. 2020
• When Rudy strikes, pins jump and scatter with cartoonish alacrity.
  — Steve Friedman, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• Despite their ordeal, many children push ahead with resolve, and even alacrity.
  — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• The lack of alacrity in decision-making here is, at best, curious.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
• Keeping up with the volcanic saxophonist could not have been an easy task, but Weiss did it with alacrity.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• Companies have led the charge, swapping in bulbs at their facilities with alacrity.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 2 June 2017
• For a show filled with technical challenges, pacing was swift and scenic transitions ran with smooth alacrity.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 17 July 2017
• Snap is running out of excuses about its Android app, and the company must move with alacrity here.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2019
• With one click, shoppers expect items to be shipped to them with alacrity and precision, across continents and oceans.
  — Esther Fung, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
• Readers devour his books with an alacrity that is otherwise quite unknown in our domestic book world.
  — Andrew Katzenstein, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• The alacrity with which Hong Kong's private firms sought to prostrate themselves before the state drew scorn in the global business press.
  — Fortune, 24 Aug. 2019
• Given the skill and alacrity required to get away with these crimes, police think the perpetrators may have extensive training.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
• Architectural fashions go in and out of style with disorienting alacrity.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2016
• Dive into a corner and the A5 turns in with a kind of alacrity and confidence the two others don’t approach.
  — James Lipman, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2018
• But what sets its methods apart are the alacrity and authenticity of how Andrés and his people interact with those in need.
  — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• Things might have been different had the Revolution acted with alacrity when they were offered Keane.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• The co-op board, moving with unusual alacrity, convened to approve the application.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• The Obama administration, in fact, moved with relative alacrity to contain the swine flu.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2020
• From moment to moment, both Harding and the orchestra responded with alacrity to the work’s shifting demands.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• Despite the landing problem, the rocket completed its primary mission with alacrity.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018

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