How to Use spry in a Sentence

spry

adjective

• The legs look as spry as fudge and twice as sweet.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
• Hank, as Kahn calls him, was spry and agile even in his last decade.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
• The Suns don’t have an answer for a spry Porzingis.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
• The rest of the band makes spry work of otherwise staid idioms.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• All pet owners want to see their dog healthy and spry into their senior years.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• Keep your spry feet dry as well; these hikers are waterproof, too.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2023
• Gone is the spry young guy who jokes about his continued sobriety.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 1 May 2023
• Wilson looked spry and fast, two seasons removed from a hip injury.
  — Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 26 May 2021
• The staff member went inside and came back with a spry woman smartly dressed in a pantsuit.
  — Harriet Blake, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Buffalo stand and stare, and spry kudu sprint away from passing safari cars.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• Meanwhile, Lynn, at a spry 88, sounds as sharp and loose as ever.
  — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• On Tuesday, her pug, Bea, still spry at 7 years old, passed out from the heat.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
• There’s plenty of guys here who are young and spry and running around, and something might happen.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 12 June 2018
• People who exercise and remain spry into old age have more of the stuff.
  — Melissa Healy, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2017
• The games tent was run by an older but spry gentleman by the name of Cornelius.
  — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
• At least part of how Dick has kept himself spry through his 90s is with frequent trips to the gym.
  — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
• The shyness could play a factor in one of the reasons why the spry pup is still under the care of the shelter.
  — Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
• Looking and feeling spry doesn’t affect the quality of your eggs.
  — Michelle Lee, Allure, 21 Oct. 2019
• Our group represents every decade from 30s to a spry 70.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
• When play resumed, Federer did not look as spry or confident as in the first set.
  — Howard Fendrich, Houston Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2020
• Laszlo is the youngest of the series' core group of vampires at a spry 310 years old.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
• None of them seemed surprised to see Sid, then a spry 84, wandering through their pregame warmup.
  — Scott Gillespie, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• Some folks in their 90s are spry and highly active, while folks who are decades younger appear to be much older.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2022
• Spry as any deep-sleeping eighteen-year-old might – nineteen in a few weeks all right but, by any measure, pretty spry.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2025
• One is still spry enough to go 310 mph and the other is still strong enough to carry 6 tons of cargo.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Purdy said that the 29-year-old looks physically spry.
  — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
• This is the smallest commuter in the Hyundai lineup, but the Accent is still spry enough to squawk the tires.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2021
• The spry 89-year-old is otherwise sharply attired, from her neat trouser suit to the amber beads around her neck.
  — Danielle Demetriou, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
• But two days later in Game 6, Davis looked spry and helped the Lakers win a title.
  — Larry Starks, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021
• But when Covid-19 took errands away, the shape-shifting, spry appeal of athleisure seemed to dim.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, Wired, 22 June 2020