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Example sentences for "livelier"

Lexicographically close words:
liv; livable; live; lived; liveing; liveliest; livelihood; livelihoods; livelily; liveliness
  1. Upon her return after the Christmas recess Beverly made some casual allusion to this fact, and at once started a new and livelier interest.

  2. There it is--betrayed by a line of livelier verdure.

  3. A little while and I will repent; to-night I cannot but remember that there are women whose lips are of a livelier tint, that life is short at best, that wine is a goodly thing, and that I am aweary of the trodden path.

  4. Even the crows were welcome, as the sable harbingers of a brighter and livelier race.

  5. Not less than in the articles, they were perhaps livelier than in the preface; they were distressing nevertheless; they led invariably to the question of our decadence.

  6. Her twinkle was livelier than his, compassionate in archness.

  7. Her children were seen up the garden setting to one another with squared aprons, responsive to a livelier measure.

  8. Jessie was aroused to livelier speech by the suggestion.

  9. Hundreds of bright bells were swinging lazily in the warm breeze, and were tossed into livelier motion and perfume by the kisses of brown-coated bees and vivid humming-birds.

  10. As far as his morality is concerned, we must pronounce him a cowardly, pettish, and rancorous animal, which retains a much livelier recollection of every injury done him than of the benefits he may have received.

  11. The harmless game that shows the feline greed To cinch the shorts and make the market bleed[A] Is better sport than victimizing Creed; And a far livelier satisfaction comes Of knowing Simon, autocrat of thumbs.

  12. Ne'er leapt the captive from the prison grate With livelier gladness to the smiles of morn, Than sprang those rivals to the forest-gloom, And its dark arms closed round them like a tomb.

  13. In both, indeed, this hero is represented as sage, courteous, and eloquent; but he is a livelier character in the Fabliaux than in the tales of his native land.

  14. Spartans, if only livelier fellows, Would make ev'n US a little jealous!

  15. The charms of the late-blowing rose Seem graced with a livelier hue, And the winter of sorrow best shows The truth of a friend such as you.

  16. His eyes, of a much darker hue, sparkled with a livelier intelligence, and although his complexion was also highly florid, if was softened down by the general vivacity of expression that pervaded his frank and smiling countenance.

  17. If so, let us hope that he will see the propriety of recognising something a little brisker and more classical--something rather livelier and more popularly relishable.

  18. If he were livelier and smiled more he would be fatter and happier.

  19. Larrey was still strong and sturdy as I saw him, and few portraits remain printed in livelier colors on the tablet of my memory.

  20. Ever since the day when Master Gridley had made that over-curious observation of the young lawyer's proceedings at the office, Murray Bradshaw had shown a far livelier interest than before in the conditions and feelings of Myrtle Hazard.

  21. Polyandry is getting to be the normal condition of the Church; and about the time a man is becoming a little overripe for the livelier human sentiments, he may be pretty sure the women are looking round to find him a colleague.

  22. And it is not very far from being the solitary confidant, and the single source of inspiration, to the growth of a livelier interest, where a young man and a young woman are in question.

  23. Was her own heart warmed by any livelier feeling than gratitude, as its life began to flow with fuller pulses, and the morning sky again looked bright and the flowers recovered their lost fragrance?

  24. Little by little he followed me; on my own side I stared with a livelier surprise.

  25. I recollect the political correspondent of that period and how the problem offered to Ray Limbert was to try to be livelier than Pat Moyle.

  26. They were both expected to be lively, and what was held out to each was that it was honourably open to him to be livelier than the other.

  27. She began to visit livelier and livelier resorts, curious to see all phases of pleasure.

  28. FLOYD How fares it, friend, since I by Fate annoy'd Left the old home in need of livelier play For body and mind?

  29. I think the sensitive fingers of these billiard players helped them to get the touch of these livelier balls which were so "kittle" for the approach and putting.

  30. It is certain that the change to the livelier ball has helped the best of the ladies more than the best of the men.

  31. Lucia, half hidden by the curtain, sat pondering uselessly over the letter she had read; feeling a vague fear and a livelier curiosity.

  32. Gentle as dew, a summer shower In beauty bathed tree, herb, and flower, And told the stream to murmur on With quicker dance and livelier tone.

  33. I will be honest with the reader, though, and any Master Pliable is free to forsake me at this point; for I cannot promise to be really livelier than my walk.

  34. But, in order to complete my journey on time, I felt I must avail myself of the first opportunity to exchange him for a livelier steed.

  35. I'll say of it It tutors nature: artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life.

  36. The life which puts those `livelier sides of life' you were just quoting into a dull, drab groove of monotony.

  37. One always thinks that anybody out from England, accustomed to the livelier sides of life, must become hideously bored in an out-of-the-way wilderness such as this really is.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "livelier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.