Sentence examples for their pluck from inspiring English sources
You have to admire their pluck, though.
We admire these people for their pluck, but, really, they are just born lucky.
We admire their grit and their pluck, and we salute them.
Their pluck moved a nation and made the team instantly famous.
"But in the face of terror their pluck, courage and hope shines brightly through".
Virginia Nicholson traces individual stories of these "spinsters" depicting their pluck and stoicism - often in the face of personal tragedy.
They wax themselves, they do their hair, pluck their eyebrows, they pluck their ears, they wear perfume.
They used the spires of a nearby church as their plucking posts.
He was a 24-year-old East Coast surfing champion, with unruly hair, local pals and feisty opening parties that gave the manicured merchants around him reason to raise their plucked eyebrows and shake their coifed heads.
It takes its cue and inspiration from Chris Marker and Alain Resnais' essay film Statues Also Die (1953), which examines the colonial commodification of African artefacts (that "death" being the removal of meaning that comes with their plucking from their original religious and social contexts).
He shows me how to find their plucking posts – piles of pigeon feathers on the ground – and tells me about "flagging" when, around mating season, males show their white under-tail feathers.
