Used in a Sentence

alacrity

How to use alacrity in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for alacrity.

Editorial note

Who can reprogram the genes in a living tissue with alacrity, but run in fear from a command line.

Examples15
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of alacrity gathered in one view.

noun

liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for alacrity.

noun

liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him"

Example sentences

1

Who can reprogram the genes in a living tissue with alacrity, but run in fear from a command line.

2

Since whereas women might not network quite with the same alacrity as men, still they network. Anyway.

3

As you got systemd and non systemd distros, Debian is in this a distro w/o alacrity.

4

Because it seems that they can move with great alacrity to twist the law when it suits the political aims of their party.

5

That and I am absolutely petrified of my alacrity fading with time.

6

Note the alacrity with which the city clamped down on Lyft and Uber - clearly you can get some things done here if you know the right people.

7

Yowza, I keep being impressed by the alacrity with which Docker based ecosystem components keep popping up.

8

No, although my grandma's requests - a rail on some steps for instance, or an automatic door - haven't been attended to with much alacrity. I just meant to show that the hardware is not so all-present as the requirements would suggest.

9

He's been on here for years, and so have I. I have often wondered, though, about his alacrity to side with the establishment, in defense of investment bankers, against net neutrality, etc. , and what his motivation is.

10

Com/reillyse/alacrity . The focus of the research was for sensor driven applications so I didn't do the partial implementation in JS until later on.

11

It's fast enough, maybe not as fast as alacrity or kitty. I just don't use the built in multiplexer or whatever. I think if you're running tmux, a lot of kitty/alacrity's performance is mooted anyway?

12

The alacrity surrounding mimicry cryptocurrency never fails to amaze me.

13

I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus." But the modern fashion is to respond to an essay that you don't like by demanding that it dress itself up like a Nature manuscript and then criticizing the flaws in the costume.

14

The recognition that rich patients — and not just female industrial dial painters — were dying because of these products led “the federal government to act with far greater alacrity to help consumers than to assist workers.”

15

You can ask it to do very complex translations of a concept from one domain to another and expressed in a form that’s certainly never been done before and it does it with alacrity. At the very minimum it “remembers” things from the past in the conversation and can associate the semantic ideas across prompts and synthesize cogent responses - that in itself implies it has some semantic “understanding” of the structure of the language.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use alacrity in a sentence?

Who can reprogram the genes in a living tissue with alacrity, but run in fear from a command line.

What does alacrity mean?

liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him"

What part of speech is alacrity?

alacrity is commonly used as noun.