How to Use plucky in a Sentence

plucky

adjective

• For the plucky Welsh racehorse Dream Alliance, well, a lot.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
• The plucky lead melody, bright and piercing, lingers in the air like a fond memory.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 July 2022
• In school, teachers lauded the plucky kid with good grades.
  — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
• The Nuggets turned the heat on in the third quarter, both with their plucky defense and their clever offense.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 14 Dec. 2019
• Of course the plucky bunch won, 1-0, with their only shot on goal in the tournament.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• None of this is to suggest that the Red Sox are plucky underdogs.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• For most of the last decade, the Coyotes were the plucky little hockey franchise that couldn’t.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 3 Sep. 2019
• The plucky coyotes and wild boar of the world will thrive in the absence of humans, for example.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 2 Apr. 2020
• The Clippers wouldn’t be viewed as a plucky little team anymore.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• But no one, not even the plucky Danes, could take England’s moment of joy, as the home team won 2-1 in extra time.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2021
• And the major tech firms can no longer plausibly pass as plucky start-ups.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
• Boston had Miami on the ropes in Game 6 but couldn’t close out this plucky foe.
  — Alex Kay, Forbes, 29 May 2022
• That Peter Parker sure is a plucky little son of a gun.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart.
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 10 May 2024
• Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 30 Dec. 2022
• Mid palate a swirl of fruit and plucky acidity and a touch of tannins and a plush lush creamy finish.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• The plucky roadster remains tiny, lightweight, and rear-wheel drive.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
• The plucky blue tank engine doesn’t appear in the debut story.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2021
• Fans of plucky heroines will find a lot to love in Sallie, the daughter of big-shot Duke and sister to the timid Eddie.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 5 Dec. 2022
• But somewhere along the way, the team turned into plucky underdogs that shocked the baseball world.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 7 Nov. 2022
• With apologies to the eleven-year-old Iain Armitage, who appeared later in the evening, Sondheim and plucky kids aren’t a great match.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• The Chiefs are favored by six in Week 1 against a plucky Cleveland Browns team that has beat the number in four of its last five road contests.
  — Alex Kay, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Like Space Toad, the plucky bat likely perished in its attempt to be the very first bat astronaut.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2023
• The two songs are bizarro images of each other: both feisty and plucky, the same tune with very different messages.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• Many locals, though, are somewhat weary of their plucky image.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Cruise plays a sports agent who strikes out on his own, with the support of a plucky single mother (Renee Zellweger).
  — Jesse Hassenger, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023
• So in the plucky probe’s honor, here’s a journey through some of the existing stellar science.
  — Wired, 7 Dec. 2019
• In order to save them and the kingdom itself, a plucky young princess named Ellian (Rachel Zegler) must go on a quest to reverse the spell.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• But from winter into spring, the snowdrop is almost alone in its plucky defiance of the cold.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• Rejecting the traditional path of a noble young woman, Birdy is ahead of her time, plucky, rambunctious, and bursting with ideas.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024