Fleeter

Word FLEETER
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Fleeter"

What do we mean by fleeter?

Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.

Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

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The word "fleeter" in example sentences

A decade of painstaking, often painful lessons resulted in a military that is in many ways fleeter and more adaptable. ❋ Julian E. Barnes (2011)

As they all plunged into a copse of petrified saplings, the fleeter ones darted ahead, the slower ones lagging. ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

Since free-market competition has not yet winnowed the 300-plus electronic medical records (EMR) systems to a viable number of good products, the stimulus will favor the old, clunky, entrenched products over the newer and fleeter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Tex-Mex button accordion has a mellower, fleeter sound than the reedy Cajun instrument, with its organlike stops. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Keilberth's stereo sound and somewhat fleeter interpretation though no Böhm or Boulez tip the scales in his favor in my opinion. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2007)

Hogwood's is fleeter, a bit tentative and flighty. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2007)

On the same day on my first day on the bins that one jumped out of the bin I saw a chain smoking colleague of mine experience almost the same thing except despite his age he was fleeter of foot than I and he chased it and kicked it to death. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Leaving these fleeter means of getting over the ground, or of depositing oneself upon it, to those who like them, by hackney – coach stands we take our stand. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Dykes launched into the hymn that every manager has sung every spring since some prehistoric Berra took his first cut with the shinbone of a dinosaur---Detroit's pitchers will be better, the batters stronger, the outfielders fleeter, the infielders niftier. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The easy contours of soothing sounds created in the air seem to resemble the lazy swell of the sea; while fleeter though less sustained noises may be compared to jumpy waves caused by a smart breeze. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Shuffling, listening, as fleeter runners spring past, I think: How about that? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Gainly are they, and fleeter than the swift-legged ostrich. ❋ Unknown (2003)

With but a single flap and no quiver of wing the osprey rights itself and sails away (a methodic, unflurried flight) with fleeter white-belly in pursuit, which when within striking distance swoops again, to be faced by the grim, outstretched talons of the osprey, who has turned in flight with machine-like precision. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The liveship was not only fleeter than the two-master, but in a position to crowd her over in the channel. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1999)

Eventually, through sheer, dogged persistence, the tortoise always caught up with the fleeter, smarter hare, leaving the hare with no choice but to make turtle soup. ❋ Jayne Ann Krentz (1998)

Gerard's reflexes had been honed on fleeter prey than she. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa (1994)

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