Example Sentences

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"Saturday Night Live" alum Sudeikis developed Ted, an American football coach pluckily heading a British soccer team, nearly a decade ago in a faux commercial called "An American Coach in London."

From Salon • May 16, 2023

The gulf of separation stretches wider and longer in “Finding Dory,” but it’s covered the same way: by pluckily overcoming genetic handicaps and trusting in the Pacific-sized love of family.

From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2016

Still, she pluckily vowed to win the Knockout, and after she gave her all to Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love,” amping up the audience, all three other coaches thought she had.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2014

And maybe the ISU could further refine and mathematize the scoring system to edit out ultra-subjective and intangible components like “poise” and “energy” and “waving pluckily to the crowd while skating backward” altogether.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2014

Then Mrs. Glass abruptly and rather pluckily asked, “How long do you have to do it?”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger