Sentence examples for more plucky from inspiring English sources

Despite the hardships, Mrs. Thakkar and many others interviewed today seem more plucky than downcast.

The Panthers play West Virginia on Thursday in what used to be known as the Backyard Brawl but will this year be more like the backyard bawl because the Mountaineers are not feeling much more plucky at 16-10 and 6-7.

If you want a system that encourages more plucky entrepreneurs like Michael Moore then you have to do some things that the big corporations won't like.

When more plucky opportunists finally located in Burundi the tiny stream that fed the ancient Nile, they seemed terribly excited.

If the A-Team's Hannibal loves nothing better than a plan that comes together, then the American public loves even more a plucky proletarian upstart scaling the heights reserved for only a rare and exceptional few.

Though it is the broadband incumbent, it is more of a plucky upstart in the pay-TV market, which is dominated by BSkyB.

Once more, Artspace, a plucky alternative to traditional galleries and museums, presents us with what seems like a perversely irreverent exhibition.

There was still time for Broad to snatch two more wickets, the plucky Rangana Herath and the fleeting Shaminda Eranga, spectacularly caught by the James Vince/Joe Root combination in the slips.

Like Anne Tyler and John Irving -- whose novels this one at times resembles -- McCracken is a sort of fantasist, a writer whose fiction takes place in a broadly rendered version of the recognizable world that follows the rules of this one but whose inhabitants tend to be more quirky, charming, plucky and noble than the people we happen to know.

And at no point did I feel more like a plucky hobbit than the moment I emerged into the sunlight after two hours of abseiling into underground caverns, crawling through freezing streams on my belly and squashing myself through inhuman gaps in the walls.

Meanwhile I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a top Fleet Street writer earlier, who told me how much he was enjoying the Olympics before adding "but I hope don't have to write too many more of these plucky Brits just miss out stories".