Sentence examples for a plucky effort from from inspiring English sources

Apart from a plucky effort from Lahiru Thirimanne, nobody did.

It's been a plucky effort from the Dutchman – he's currently third in the young riders classification but with more than eight minutes to make up on the two leaders, Betancur and Majka.

And, despite a plucky effort by the visitors, it was ultimately Madrid's extra attacking quality which proved the difference.

We say: CreateMyNet is a plucky effort, but since it is licensing Userplane software for most of its service, it appears to have little intellectual capital inside the service.

But the humiliation will be greatly mitigated because of the plucky effort in standing at all.

But for Noble, whose voice retained a tell-tale wobble a good half-hour after he had hugged each of the Wigan players on the pitch, another plucky effort and near miss were never going to be enough.

I'd patronise Sheffield United to within an inch of their lives for their plucky efforts but unfortunately, I haven't time.

Florida Gulf Coast, a plucky upstart from the Atlantic Sun Conference, ousted college basketball royalty in a 78-68 victoverover Georgetown at Wells Fargo Center.

Franco is a plucky overachiever from Brooklyn who was never supposed to pitch in the major leagues.

Instead of a plucky team from a small market taking on the rich Yankee, it was a clash of two expensive payrolls from the same place.

So here comes a plucky entrepreneur from, of all places, the Netherlands, with a wild, you've-got-to-be-joking plan to profit from the sorry state of so many American unions.