How to use brisk in a sentence

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• After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt.From the entry change
• We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.From the entry plod
• Rebleeds are not unusual. A brisk rebleed is an urgent concern.From the entry rebleed
• The brisk wind bagged the sails.From the entry bag
• China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.2021 July 26, Steven Lee Myers, Keith Bradsher, Chris Buckley, “As China Boomed, It Didn’t Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It…. From the entry pell-mell
• The presence of a large number of people ensured that vendors selling eatables made brisk business.2011 January 8, “For kids’ sake, a long, cold wake”, in Deccan Herald. From the entry eatable
• The brisk air blew away the fogs and fusts of London.2003, Philip Gooden, “Incognito”, in Alms for Oblivion, London: Constable, →ISBN. From the entry fust
• Everyone goes on a 15-minute brisk walk and talks about their day.1993, B. Kaye Olson, Energy Secrets for Tired Mothers on the Run, Health Communications,, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry walkie-talkie
• Gift products brisk and expanding sales of "Arabiki" sausages, pizzas, and chicken precooked dishes from Fall '90.1990, “Foods”, in Japan Company Handbook, number 55, page 179. From the entry arabiki
• In Fukien there was a brisk circulation of the woods needed for building ships.1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97. From the entry Ning-te
• After months in the horse latitudes, retail and auto sales are scudding along at a brisk pace.1961 December 15, “State of Business: Hardening the Soft Spots”, in Time. From the entry horse latitudes
• The big shots up at Head Office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time.1959 November 20, Roald Dahl, "The Landlady", archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023. From the entry briskness
• Hat Bodies: — Trade has been getting brisk of late for hat bodies and sparteries.1950, Tanzan Ishibashi, The Oriental Economist, volume 17, page 729. From the entry spartery
• Traffic is brisk, and goods consists of rice, gunny (hessian), maize and native implements.1946 September and October, “Notes and News: Light Railways in India”, in Railway Magazine, page 316. From the entry gunny
• A bugler and his brisk reveille woke them most mornings.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 53. From the entry reveille
• Instead, wrapped in whispers are ellipses, euphemisms, mumbled aporia followed by throat-clearing and a brisk change of subject.2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 9. From the entry aporia
• “Cool and brisk in the morning, warming to the low seventies by afternoon,” Ruby said anticipating the weatherman's words.2014, Fern Michaels, Vegas Sunrise, Kensington Books, page [245]. From the entry weatherman
• Doing brisk business, he turns to his young helper.2011, Ed Hillyer, The Clay Dreaming, Myriad Editions. From the entry gawf
• The bubbling of vapour through the rosehead should not be too brisk, otherwise solution will be lost through the hole, G.2010, J. B. Yadav, Advanced Practical Physical Chemisty, page 46. From the entry rosehead
• We want to make good time; to keep a brisk pace; to get to the post office and back.2010, Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. From the entry make good time
• They are designed to carry an infant comfortably at a brisk pace set by the person running behind.2010 October 19, Chris Cooper, Long May You Run: All. Things. Running., Touchstone, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry running stroller
• Mrs Parsons was as brisk as her husband was dawdlesome, and as plump and perky as he was slow.2002, Barbara Euphan Todd, Worzel Gummidge. From the entry dawdlesome
• Brisk had appointed him part leader for the bassi.1973, Clavier: A Magazine for Pianists & Organists, Volume 12, Instrumentalist Company, page 35. From the entry zeloso
• The verses are syllabated over a brisk march-like tune, picked out with first violins, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and trombone.1973, Julian Budden, The Operas of Verdi, page 118. From the entry syllabate
• Empty and echoey, it was doing brisk trade in Orient Express vintage posters, several of which now adorn my garden office walls.2025 October 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life's little luxuries”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 84. From the entry echoey
• Bortnyk's lead was never really in doubt and he converted game after game with brisk speed as premoves flew across the board by both players.2022 March 11, Anthony Levin, “Bullet Chess Championship Losers Round 2: Bortnyk, Erigaisi, Jacobson, Martinez Advance”, in Chess.com…. From the entry premove
• They started with a mile; by January, they were hitting the trails at Bear Mountain at 7 a.m. on Saturdays for a brisk eight-miler.2007 July 15, Gerri Hirshey, “Sisterhood of the Walking Shoe”, in The New York Times. From the entry miler
• If by chance you notice the fine, almost sweet maltiness of the aroma, and the brisk, dry, mineral quality of the flavors, even better.2007 January 24, Eric Asimov, “Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew”, in New York Times. From the entry by chance
• He grips with a brisk clench, makes masterly eye contact and tops it off with a light pat on the wrist from his nonshaking hand.2007 April 28, Mark Leibovich, “‘Top Tier’ Candidate? Maybe Not, but Dodd Is Still Enjoying the Ride”, in New York Times. From the entry nonshaking
• He took a brisk wristful of whisky as she raised her glass, then looked at her with a curiously blank stare before breaking the silence.1985, John Broderick, The Rose Tree, page 130. From the entry wristful
• But the omnipresent morozhenoe ice cream stand is doing a brisk business selling “eskimos,” chocolate-covered vanilla logs, for 28 kopacks 37 cents.1973 December 19, Christopher Ogden, “At Detski Mir the Crowds Buy for Nov God”, in Daily Evening Item, volume 184, number 10, Lynn…. From the entry morozhenoe
• A pretty country girl, brisk and industrious, might lack the worldly polish and refinement necessary to shine in Crailsboro society, but Mr.1938 February 12, Sophie Kerr, “Cupboard Lover”, in Saturday Evening Post, volume 210, number 33, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 42. From the entry Gabe
• 'Busy, Max?' chirruped the familiar voice of his friend the inquiry agent—incurably brisk and debonair even after its ten miles' journey along the wire.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry chirrup
• The General Manager conveyed little, either in his person or his manner, of the brisk precision that his message seemed to promise.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry general manager
• He thought out his brisk repartees purely for his own satisfaction and at leisure, and would have blushed to answer his belittlers in the open.1913, Everard Meynell, chapter 7, in The Life of Francis Thompson, London: Burns & Oates, page 142. From the entry belittler

Meaning of brisk

1. adjective Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
2. adjective Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
3. adjective Sparkling; fizzy.

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Questions about brisk in a sentence

How do you use brisk in a sentence?

Brisk is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “We took a brisk walk yesterday.”

What is a short sentence with brisk?

“The brisk wind bagged the sails.”

What does brisk mean?

Brisk means full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.