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alacrity - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- spirit: We have no longer the alacrity of spirit that feels but half the weight it carries.
Converse of object
- disconcert: He stated that he wished his deputies to respond to the threat of lethal violence with " disconcerting alacrity.
- show: Spain too, which then was without a governor of consular rank, showed no alacrity.
Adjective modifier
- great: Having stripped off with great alacrity, Daniel got on the bed.
- such: A still bigger surprise is that a relatively small 2.7 liter diesel engine can push such a large car along with such alacrity.
- same: Will the same alacrity apply to the Entertainment Center?
- joyful: Sir William and Lady Lucas were speedily applied to for their consent; and it was bestowed with a most joyful alacrity.
- fresh: Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.
- remarkable: And then a number of brisk young men began with remarkable alacrity to tidy up the goods that remained disturbed.
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