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Example sentences for: plucky

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"Were she still alive, Diana, the People's Princess, would also fear the colossal storm, but would admirably conceal her terror with a plucky smile and fistful of mood-altering drugs obtained from the rich lay-abouts she thinks of as friends," the Mirror did not add.
Only the Journal could find in the above events an uplifting story about a plucky kid's "first lesson in the power of connections."
As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.
In 1980, facing similar difficulties, Ted Kennedy switched from Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" (too high-toned) to "Gonna Fly Now," the theme from Rocky (Ted as the plucky little underdog).
I call that plucky.