Example sentences for: plucky

How can you use “plucky” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I call that plucky.

  • For me, all of these expressions convey a plucky willingness to learn a foreign language and to use it in everyday situations.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Only the Journal could find in the above events an uplifting story about a plucky kid's "first lesson in the power of connections."


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