Sentence examples for briskly takes from inspiring English sources

He looks intimidated and does not risk a move as the young woman briskly takes him from the scales to the measuring board, and back onto his mother's lap.

Condos, however, sold more briskly, taking an average of 135 days on the market to sell, versus 154 in 2007.

"Let's go up to the living room and get a cup of tea," says Ellie briskly, taking him by the arm.

Her Olympic-scale worrying would have briskly taken on the darkness of the gravestone slate had she still been around; her letter would instruct me to consult somebody in The New Yorker's checking department about all this.

The Daredevils, and Shreyas Iyer in particular, began the chase briskly, taking 19 from the IPL debutant Shardul Thakur's first over and completing the 50 partnership – the Daredevils openers' first in this year's competition – in the seventh over.

They are all afraid and I support them in their weakness.' He then briskly took inven tory of his divas, those Madonnas and Magdalenas who have been substitutes for the mother he lost at the age of six: 'Joan and Joan, Liz [my God, she was not a joke!] and Liza, Maria and Anna, oh yes and Maggie, too.' In the extended family of celebrity, only first names are used.

Although Apple may be able to grow briskly by taking Windows customers from Microsoft, the two companies face a similar problem: the industry is maturing and there have been no obvious radical innovations to jump-start growth.

Of the two efforts, Chown's version moves along more briskly, though it takes a while to get going.

Kennedy takes us briskly through this oversized, exuberant world, dispatching her heroine into the arms of a mogul boss in a series of wickedly maladroit sex scenes.

Imran Yusuf's show (Laughing Horse @ Espionage ) is an hour of cheek and charm that takes us briskly through the Asian comic's early life at an American school where his peers treated him as if he was in Mary Poppins ("Can you imagine me in that film? Well, maybe as a chimney sweep") through to his life in Britain as a Muslim.

The Intrada, taken briskly here, instantly grabs your attention.