Sentence examples for plucky side from inspiring English sources

That is the nature of the game but the Kiwis, generous opponents and a likeable bunch, who hung around at the post-match ceremonials with the forlorn look of losers, can take comfort in the fact that they outplayed England for much of the final Test and overall in the series: Brendon McCullum has rather more than just a plucky side playing out of their socks.

They were known as the plucky side where being second-best was accepted; Hyndman vowed to rid Wales of their "defeatist mentality".

"Women, often relegated to roles of damsel-in-distress or plucky side-kick, have been both misrepresented and underrepresented in the genre, comprising only a fraction of characters and frequently hypersexualized, brutalised and objectified".

"Women, often relegated to roles of damsel-in-distress or plucky side-kick, have been both misrepresented and underrepresented in the genre, comprising only a fraction of characters and frequently hypersexualized, brutalized and objectified".

Palin's pluckier side -- love it or hate it -- is on display in a short clip quoting her own assessment of her experience as a running mate.

ON TUESDAY evening, hundreds of World Cup stewards clad in fluorescent FIFA jackets dutifully averted their gaze from the dazzling footwork of Brazil's multi-million-pound footballers as they dispatched a plucky North Korean side by two goals to one.

"Antarctica" is a first book in which ambition -- to address big themes and make big things happen -- sometimes clouds the writer's observations and jeopardizes her empathy for the vivid, plucky women whose side she can so winningly and naturally take.

Not content to play the role of plucky underdogs, Owen Coyle's side controlled long periods of play.

Markus Gisdol's plucky, billionaire-bank-rolled side from a village in nowhere (Rhein-Neckar, the locals call it) are still unbeaten.

Moses was just too rapid for the Malian defense, and with three goals in a 20-minute burst the contest against a plucky, but overpowered, Malian side became a training ground exercise that allowed Nigeria to start conserving energy.

Meanwhile on the west coast, Fremantle skipper Matthew Pavlich lifted when it mattered most to help his side overcome a plucky Brisbane by 36 points.