How to Use plucky in a Sentence

plucky

adjective

• The movie laid the groundwork for more plucky princesses.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The style is just as flattering, with twice the plucky skate rat ‘tude.
  — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 17 Oct. 2017
• The time when plucky wannabe tech titans could do no wrong is gone.
  — The Economist, 17 Mar. 2018
• Hampered with a leg injury, the plucky Alex gets to be the damsel in distress.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 5 Oct. 2017
• Some plucky souls jump over the fires as a way of ensuring good luck and health.
  — National Geographic, 20 June 2019
• 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
• But in a twist, the plucky survivors in the fiery aftermath proved to be ferns and hardy, ground-dwelling birds.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 May 2018
• 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
• But there are some plucky and/or nasty folks waiting on those shores who can and will find ways to stop them.
  — Joshua Tucker, Washington Post, 15 July 2017
• Our plucky teen heroes learned a lot about the Mind Flayer over the course of two seasons.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2019
• Garrett Matthias took on his cancer in a unique way and the plucky 5-year-old took the same approach to his death.
  — PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2018
• The plucky coyotes and wild boar of the world will thrive in the absence of humans, for example.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 2 Apr. 2020
• Tenacious and plucky, Nancy had a boyfriend, the handsome Ned.
  — Jennifer Fisher, Smithsonian, 2 July 2018
• The Gunners could be in for a tricky test against Viktor Goncharenko's plucky side.
  — SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Now and again, a catchy country or plucky pop song from Swift really hits the spot.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 6 May 2018
• Werth was quick to play down the idea that his plucky team was doing anything heroic.
  — Hereward Holland, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2016
• That is the name given to the plucky band of basketballers from Argentina that took the Olympics by storm in 2004.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Fans across the nation sat glued to the edge of their seats on Sunday thanks to plucky underdogs upending some of the teams already being penciled in for the playoffs.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• How ever will these plucky kids solve their problems, learn to be better people, and have a holiday to remember?
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Jan 2025