How to Use feisty in a Sentence

feisty

adjective

• The novel features a feisty heroine.
• Even her opponents admire her feisty spirit.
• Winds will be feisty out of the south around 10 to 15 mph.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
• The Falcons have been feisty and haven’t gotten blown out on the road.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
• But don’t wait for the chance to boat a daily bag limit of five of the feisty trout.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2021
• So how to win the heart of feisty but outgunned Greenland?
  — Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2025
• Back in the old days with a more feisty group of challengers, he would’ve been told to shut up and sit down.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• There was no fight from the often-feisty Scherzer when Roberts came for the ball.
  — George Henry, ajc, 18 Oct. 2021
• Up 3–1 against the feisty Jazz, Paul acknowledged that those kinds of leads haven’t been kind to him in the past.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 24 May 2018
• Ball and Caruso were the lifeblood of Chicago's feisty defense over the first few months of the season.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
• As good as the Dodgers are at grinding out at-bats, the Yankees may be more feisty.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• Some could be feisty with wind gusts up to 40 or 50 mph, and perhaps some soft hail.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022
• Effertz, back in the lineup, blocked two shots as a feisty 6-foot guard.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
• Bess was willing to be feisty, to be difficult, to be in a bad mood, to be.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
• Look for the Lightning to hold off a feisty Islanders team and return to the final.
  — Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
• Either way, this is San Diego’s best team since the feisty 2010 bunch that took the Giants to the finish line.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• Winds are feisty, gusting around 30 mph during the day.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• Winds become pretty feisty as well, out of the south, with gusts around 30 or 35 mph at times.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2020
• Kids and grown-ups alike will get a kick out of these feisty leprechaun footprints.
  — Sara Hendricks, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
• Brady is feisty on the sidelines with coaches and teammates.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2022
• First there's the chicken, fat pieces that have been rubbed in yogurt and lemon juice with some feisty char marks from the grill.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
• Beyond all that, Curry has been downright feisty in the war of words.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2018
• Salt Lake is a feisty team, though, and has been throughout the latter part of this season.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
• But the Suns rebounded and hammered a feisty Atlanta team to round out the week.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
• The altercation with Bumrah on a feisty first day at the SCG was a case in point.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
• But as the video clip shows, the alligator proved to be feisty as the trapper removed it from the pool.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 31 Mar. 2018
• A lot of her earlier music about love was feisty and naïve (in a good way).
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
• Smith went from barely being able to talk one day, to being back to her old feisty self the next.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2020
• They were met in their driveway by a feisty polar bear, who lunged at the woman.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
• Poppy, a feisty nightclub waitress, has carved out a lovely life for herself and her son in the years since her parents kicked her out as a pregnant teen.
  — Tia Williams, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025