How to Use gutty in a Sentence

gutty

adjective

• This was a pretty gutty effort by the Cowboys defense, for a change.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2020
• But Allen, leading 35-20 at halftime, broke it open early in the third quarter off a big turnover and a gutty goal-line stand.
  — Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2021
• Sekera returned for the third, a gutty performance that may have saved a team that looked to be running on fumes.
  — Stephen Whyno, Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2020
• Scramble from a collapsing pocket for a first down like Stafford, who had a savvy and gutty game using his feet.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2017
• The Lions kept the game manageable for three quarters thanks to a gutty performance by Stafford.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2020
• The Cavaliers put on a gutty performance for the most part, and Game 1 was clearly influenced by the refs to the detriment of Cleveland.
  — latimes.com, 16 June 2018
• The movie plays to the gutty underdog story line, not surprising since the director and the screenwriter are the same pair that turned out Rudy and Hoosiers.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• The Pioneers beat the Cougars largely due to a tough, gutty performance from their quarterback Matt Shearer.
  — Austin Gayle, Cincinnati.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• One of the main reasons Stanford had a chance to tie the game late was the gutty performance of Friday night starter Kris Bubic, a 6-foot-3 sophomore who escaped multiple jams in the early going.
  — Vytas Mazeika, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2017
• But Donahue would gain more than respect over his final two seasons as one of Prothro’s gutty little Bruins.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2021
• Both won gutty matches on Wednesday that were filled with tension, noise and surges of momentum in every direction.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• That stuck, even when most of the teams of Gutty Little Bruins that Donahue put on the field were neither little, nor needing to be particularly gutty.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
• Was this the guttiest of gutty little Bruin performances?
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• Carson had a particularly gutty effort, shaking off the dislocated finger of last week to carry it 22 times for 90 yards against one of the toughest defenses in the NFL.
  — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2018

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