Sentence examples for plucky effort from inspiring English sources

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

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

Chris Coleman revealed his pride at Wales' plucky effort in the defeat to Croatia in Swansea, but admits his side are now playing for third place after conceding their 2014 World Cup qualification dreams are over.

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.

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.

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

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

So when the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben laments in the film that the financial world, with its thrilling booms and crushing busts, its plucky efforts to ward off recessions, its fevers and chills, seems more real to us than the natural world where we live, you could see people nodding throughout the room.

When the replacement scrum-half Sebastien Tillous-Borde was denied a try by plucky cover defence it rounded off a Toulon effort infinitely more functional than flashy.

The result was a near-flawless defensive effort, and a plucky offensive performance that did not wilt after the homer by Ortiz in the sixth tarnished another sensational Michael Wacha performance.

Leafing back through Newark's recent past can be like witnessing the efforts of a plucky, battered boxing contender.