Explore Alacrity through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like briskness or smartness. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Alacrity in a sentence
Alacrity meaning
- Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
- Promptness; speed.
Synonyms of Alacrity
Using Alacrity
- The main meaning on this page is: Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm. | Promptness; speed.
- Useful related words include: briskness, smartness, liveliness, life.
- In the example corpus, alacrity often appears in combinations such as: with alacrity, the alacrity, alacrity of.
Context around Alacrity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alacrity
- In this selection, "alacrity" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, same, remarkable, certain and hasn stand out and add context to how "alacrity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a certain alacrity and continue and adulthood with alacrity. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alacrity" sits close to words such as abattoirs, aberrant and abike, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alacrity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
So seek out blessings and assistance with alacrity. (8 words)
In his alacrity to fix the malaise, he has messed up his lines. (13 words)
The alacrity with which they have reintroduced compulsory national service for one year indicates their alarm. (16 words)
Every year since 1966, the cries of Kaduna Nzeogwu et al of a corrupt and big-for-nothing country silencing its best and putting forward its dregs have waltzed their way from the graveyard with deafening clarity and automatic alacrity! (40 words)
The same folks who publicly flirted with impeachment justifications like “quid pro quo” and bribery before settling on amorphous “abuse of power” and nonsensical “obstruction of Congress” charges have now glommed on to the GAO’s finding with alacrity. (39 words)
While some of my neighbours adopted delivery apps with alacrity – a liveried bicycle arrives at one house in our street virtually every day – I’ve never used Deliveroo, and don’t plan on doing so any time soon. (38 words)
In courting Sisi, has the EU already forgotten the embarrassment of its dalliance with Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi or Egypt’s own Hosni Mubarak, who were dropped with alacrity when the Arab Spring began in 2011? (37 words)
Every year since 1966, the cries of Kaduna Nzeogwu et al of a corrupt and big-for-nothing country silencing its best and putting forward its dregs have waltzed their way from the graveyard with deafening clarity and automatic alacrity! (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
I judge the quality of formal education by the ability of the student to move with skill and alacrity in familiar circumstances and adaptively in those in which they lack familiarity or experience.
I'm sure iran will follow orders with the same alacrity that they cow-tow to the Yu ess of Ay.
So seek out blessings and assistance with alacrity.
That’s the Tory ethos: they cut billions with the alacrity that Logan Roy and family add them to takeover bids.
The alacrity with which they have reintroduced compulsory national service for one year indicates their alarm.
It was, as such, surprising to see the alacrity of the orthodox leaders' response to that vote - to state they were remaining in the CoE and encouraging others to do likewise.
The same alacrity hasn’t been seen in wheat, rice and sugar тАФ perhaps because the growers of these crops are politically more organised than pulses or oilseeds farmers.
While some of my neighbours adopted delivery apps with alacrity – a liveried bicycle arrives at one house in our street virtually every day – I’ve never used Deliveroo, and don’t plan on doing so any time soon.
As it did in every facet of mobilization, from building Liberty ships to recruiting air raid wardens, the United States responded with remarkable alacrity to the flood of Axis prisoners.
I jumped at the chance with a certain alacrity, and continue enjoying do so to this day.
In his alacrity to fix the malaise, he has messed up his lines.
Navigating an uncomfortable relationship between his camera, his friends, and his own past, Bing explores the gap between childhood and adulthood with alacrity.
The same folks who publicly flirted with impeachment justifications like “quid pro quo” and bribery before settling on amorphous “abuse of power” and nonsensical “obstruction of Congress” charges have now glommed on to the GAO’s finding with alacrity.
They organized themselves with surprising alacrity to weed the backyard, sweep and mop the floors, clean the stove and haul out volumes of trash.
This example happened too late for the philosopher Kate Manne to include it in her new book, “Entitled,” but I can only imagine the alacrity with which she would have destroyed it.
Every year since 1966, the cries of Kaduna Nzeogwu et al of a corrupt and big-for-nothing country silencing its best and putting forward its dregs have waltzed their way from the graveyard with deafening clarity and automatic alacrity!
If action is not taken with alacrity against such officers, either serving or retired, who hold such views as those expressed by General SP Sinha- then Act must be repealed from our body of Laws with immediate effect.
In courting Sisi, has the EU already forgotten the embarrassment of its dalliance with Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi or Egypt’s own Hosni Mubarak, who were dropped with alacrity when the Arab Spring began in 2011?
In the meantime, our hard-won democracy has been so much trampled upon that it has fled with great alacrity.
There is money to be made, and Trump, with his entrepreneurial instinct, smells it and is pursuing it with all the alacrity of one of his bigtime real estate deals.
Common combinations with alacrity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- with alacrity 11×
- the alacrity 6×
- alacrity of 3×
- alacrity to 3×
- same alacrity 2×
- alacrity that 2×
- alacrity with 2×