Sentence examples for spunk from inspiring English sources

Some slang becomes respectable when it loses its edge; "spunk," "fizzle," "spent," "hit the spot," "jazz," "funky," and "p.o.'d," once thought to be too indecent for feminine ears, are now family words.

In addition to Mule Bone, several other collections were also published posthumously; these include Spunk: The Selected Stories (1985), The Complete Stories (1995), and Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales from the South.

Other new waters... * Coca-Cola launched Dasani in the UK in 2004, neglecting to alter its US marketing strategy, which saw it labelled "bottled spunk", a PR disaster soon topped when it was revealed to be treated water from a tap in Sidcup.

Expense That's to say thank God the rights were acquired by a big US network ready to spunk limitless money all over the screen rather than, say, a beleaguered UK one; for evidence of why, see the Beeb's Game of Thrones bandwagon-jumper The White Queen and its minimalist battle scenes.

Letterman need not look to Leno to see what spunk looks like, of course.

I loved the album's cocktail of bombast and spunk and their consummate reclaiming of a movement's worth of sonic debris from some lost early-Sixties hinterland.

"Benny was a terrific leader," recalled pianist Jess Stacy, "but if I'd had any spunk I'd probably have thrown the piano at him".

Her most evident attribute is spunk, which is manifest in the dozens of features and activities, great and small, that she has introduced to get people to come to the island, to reanimate a dead space — to put it, as she often says, back on the map.

H offers no evidence of Bardot's moral spunk in real life, as when she recently sent the reply "Je ne marcherai pas!" to an O.A.S. blackmail demand for half a million francs.

(Its Web site: "Drink – Dance – Strip – Fuck. Music for prostitudes, indie anti-hits, pink noise, raw static, synth cherry pop, spunk rock, cock 'n' hole, artcore + lo-fi 4 low lifes").

The women's movement of the time had energized girls' fiction, creating an audience for female characters with spunk (in contrast to Stratemeyer's early girl heroines, like Honey Bunch, who "knew exactly how to do a washing for she had watched the laundress many times").