How to Use vivacious in a Sentence

vivacious

adjective
  • But this vivacious condiment can be more than just a dip.
    Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 2 Jan. 2019
  • Leslie is a vivacious free spirit trapped in a cycle of shame.
    Thelma Adams, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Ample was the light and few were the dark passages in a program of vivacious chamber works.
    Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Her vivacious grandmother took a fall in the night and died two days later.
    Wray Herbert, Washington Post, 3 July 2020
  • Bloch, who works out five days a week, is tiny and trim, vivacious and warm.
    Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Jacquet is the most vivacious of the bunch, but she's given a lot of cliched coquettish things to do.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Under the dark sky of this lunation, your vivacious magnetism will be put to good use.
    Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The Waltz, too, was a thing of vivacious beauty, all sweep and brilliance.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • There are palm trees, a vivacious arts and restaurant scene — and fewer potholes.
    John Raby, ajc, 22 May 2021
  • Ms. Brennan was as engaged and vivacious as when the evening began.
    Brett Anderson, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • This part of the book is as strange and horrifying as its beginning is vivacious and triumphant.
    Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The craft beer scene here is phenomenal and is comprised of resilient and vivacious people.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The details are bizarre, and this part of the book is as strange and horrifying as its beginning is vivacious and triumphant.
    Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • Levin was always described as pretty and vivacious, dark-haired and funny and fun.
    Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 26 Aug. 2016
  • Now, the balcony-level space has been given a vivacious refresh.
    Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The general vibe was flirty and overly vivacious, in the best possible way.
    Remi Bader, ELLE, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Read more: Horace was the vivacious one; Vi kept him grounded.
    Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 22 May 2020
  • You are missed by all of us more than words can ever say, my precious, vivacious and dearly loved youngest daughter.
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
  • My mom was vivacious and stricken with a show-off-y kind of element to her character.
    Carrie Brownstein, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Yet, what a vivacious charmer the self-effacing Norman is.
    Colin Covert, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
  • The mortician’s work had turned Mary, so vivacious in life, into a stranger.
    Mike Newall, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • As fashion month keeps chugging along, that vivacious red keeps appearing on the runway.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Clint had always been vivacious and energetic, someone who could grab all the attention in the room.
    Katy Bergen, kansascity, 17 May 2017
  • And then there's Olive, a vivacious 2-year-old who loves to be cuddled and held.
    Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2017
  • And then there's Olive, a vivacious 2-year-old who loves to be cuddled and held.
    Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Over the previous few years, my once vivacious daughter had turned sullen, anger and resentment coiled around her.
    Wired, 5 July 2022
  • One thing’s for certain – this gang gives us hope for a future filled with vibrant and vivacious female friendship.
    Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Where Janet is open and vivacious, Colleen is more taciturn.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Friends described Moore as funny and vivacious, a onetime tomboy who loved sports and the rapper Drake.
    Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Karen was a vivacious and vibrant lady who loved to read and seemed much younger than her 76 years.
    sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2019

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