How to Use vim in a Sentence

vim

noun
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  • Beauty and the Beast are words that go together like coffee and cream, mice and men, sticks and stones, and vim and vigor.
    — James Deutsch, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Beauty and the Beast are words that go together like coffee and cream, mice and men, sticks and stones, and vim and vigor.
    — James Deutsch, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
  • And the actor is vastly less convincing in a cameo as an FBI agent, sapping that scene of vim.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The starters do not exactly play with either vim or vigor.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Around the table, each of the Bears representatives made note of the quarterback's vim.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
  • The result will be familiar to many — a tree that leafs out with not a whole lot of vim and vigor and then collapses after a few hot days.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2018
  • The fabrics communicated vim and joy, like the icy blue overcoat that screamed loudly, though not in my size ($2,000).
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The Pacers have a good team, full of vim and expectation of bigger tomorrows.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Drunk but full of vim, vigor, and, as the girthy silhouette in his pants suggested, virility.
    — Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Claude Fouet, still full of vim and good humor at age 89 but with memory problems, was among the first in his Paris care home to agree to a vaccination.
    — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2021
  • There’s a kind of magic in that confidence, and, beyond it all and because of such, New York’s lights in the background seemed to twinkle with extra vim and vigor last night.
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Maybe not, according to a new study that says dinosaurs still had plenty of vim and vigor leading up to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
  • McDonald, who won the first of her six Tonys for the part, also made audiences appreciate Carrie’s earthy humor and vim.
    — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
  • Vim and vigor have always featured prominently in Trump’s self-image.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2016
  • Succeeding in music has generally been thought to require something more than the natural vim and charm that she’s deployed to this point.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Melissa Clark After a slow, rainy start to the Brooklyn backyard growing season, the mint on my deck is finally powering its way back, taking over the herb box with vim and vigor.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • At the start of the second half the visitors produced a bit more attacking vim, but Mousset's beautifully curled shot after he was released by Fleck doubled the Blades' lead.
    — John Sinnott, CNN, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Global bank chiefs love the entrepreneurial vim of Shenzhen, whose sizeable stockmarket hosts over 2,000 firms.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Most turn their attention to it only after finding their initial vim frustrated.
    — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Boyfriend Material is effervescent, sparkling with the vim and vigor of its biting wit, deep feelings, and irresistible banter.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • And certainly Ms. Spalding plays with earthiness and infectious vim.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2016
  • Over the years, Netflix has provided nervous TV fans with a glowering repository of corrupt baddies, who inject storylines with much needed vim and venom.
    — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 29 May 2017
  • Even after two dispiriting seasons, Bears players still appreciate Fox's manner, praising him for his vim and his knack for giving individuals their best chance to succeed.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Apparently, vinegar has been Vin’s secret ingredient to vim and vigor lifestyle.
    — Tom Hoffarth, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2017
  • But the pep rally vim only underscores the awkwardness professional women feel in trying to ingratiate themselves, struggling to be likable.
    — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Even now, as developers continue to barrel toward the invisible barrier of true photorealism with more vim than ever, Garcia and his fellow industry veterans believe that there’s plenty of room for the genre to grow.
    — Steven T. Wright, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2018

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