Example sentences for: crisply

How can you use “crisply” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Her writing is "crisply entertaining" (Cynthia Crossen, the Wall Street Journal ), her ideas are "revolutionary … a manifesto in praise and defense of the home" (Susannah Herbert, the Chicago Sun-Times ), and the information is indispensable: "Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food" (Katy Kelly, USA Today ). The only negative comment critics can come up with is that on occasion "a schoolmarmish, admonitory tone creeps in" (Corby Kummer, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to buy the book.)

  • In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.

  • “You mean an analog watch,” she said crisply, and led me to a nearby display.

  • This kicked in after Jesus was crucified, a moment they crisply refer to as "Messiah cut off."

  • Mournful looks were crisply dismissed in Old Cornwall as looking like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.


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