How to Use vivacity in a Sentence

vivacity

noun

• The crowd in Vegas was roaring, and the Golden Knights responded to the vivacity with the first goal of the game.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 28 May 2018
• His base acted, rather, as the foil for his miraculous, manic display of vivacity in the last days of the campaign.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Nov. 2020
• But all that vivacity didn’t arise just from high spirits.
  — David Kirby, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• But here, his craft has been hemmed in, gamified, leeched of color and vivacity.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 4 May 2022
• The piece is so brilliant, so joyous, so full of energy, tunes, life and vivacity.
  — Chris Kornelis, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• The spools frame her mask-like open mouth, decorating voids in the human skull that signaled the soul’s vivacity in pre-Columbian culture.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• The vivacity from the pregame show and Vegas’s quick start dissipated to a degree as the fans sat nervously through what was now a one-goal game.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 16 May 2018
• After all, expensive brunette is all about bringing vivacity to your hair color, so make the most of it.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 20 Jan. 2022
• Yet there are flashes of brilliant color – gold, turquoise, copper, green, white – that turn the scene into a thing of beauty and vivacity.
  — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 23 Feb. 2018
• Her face hovers over soapy water; her loose bangs curl into playful horns; her hair reaches upward with the vivacity of Medusa’s snakes.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
• The result is a bowl of warmth, comfort and soul that smacks you in the face with flavor — perfect for breaking free of winter’s doldrums and embracing the potential and vivacity of spring.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• As expected, the songs were imbued with percussive vivacity, brought to life by sounds of childhood whimsy such as the toy-like whirring of a ratchet or the staccato thwack of a wood block.
  — Katie Reul, Variety, 8 Nov. 2022
• The red-blooded vivacity of Ms. Olin’s performance, however, pierces through the muck.
  — Teo Bugbee, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• In the guise of an aperitif, the house this week is offering up an exuberant ode to nature’s vivacity.
  — Vogue, 2 July 2018
• All these years later, the boy whose tears spoke volumes that day in the rain has found his voice, speaking eloquently about his mother, her vivacity, the power of her example.
  — Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
• Springbok and impala leapt stiff-legged, displaying their strength and vivacity for any predators that might be watching.
  — Mark Eveleigh, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
• Burna Boy makes deeply soulful songs that brim with a karma-clearing vivacity.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022
• Some jewels require a wearer to lend them vivacity and substance.
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 13 Mar. 2020
• This planet governs Aries, the impulsive fire sign known for its high-octane vivacity.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 July 2021
• This planet governs Aries, the impulsive fire sign known for its high-octane vivacity.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 12 Mar. 2018
• Wafa had this great vivacity and excitement for the normal stuff of young romance, and the horribleness of her situation didn’t negate her love.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 June 2021
• For all its power and weight, the wine unfolds with vivacity into a very long, minerally finish.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 13 May 2022
• And in the score, Joplin pushed himself past ragtime into music that lilts, soars and swings with tenderness and vivacity, somewhat in the grand operetta style of Gilbert and Sullivan (if without the patter).
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Still, the Ascension Choir’s vivacity did not visibly lift the spirits of the man for whom all this pomp was painstakingly orchestrated.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• Bring some vivacity to your nails by recreating this look created by nail artist Nataszija Moore.
  — Allure, 25 Feb. 2022
• Even Levinson’s messages about love and goodness gain greater vivacity when applied to Rue’s addiction.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2022
• With its versatility and vivacity, the shoe is a bargain.
  — Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
• Beauty, youth, heightened vivacity or even buffoonery overwhelm us, and the figures do indeed seem alive.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• The palate virtually pops with vivacity; grapefruit and lime zest run counterpoint to red fruit and peaches, with orange zest tapering on the finish.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 31 May 2021
• But in a town nearly drowned in choral talent, the WDC immediately shows a special spark — a fearless mix of old and new, classical and not, expected and un-, performed with skill to match its vivacity.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024