spunk
noun
pluck; spirit; mettle.
Example Sentences
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An outclassed Washington team fought spunkily through the first period, then tired.
From Time Magazine Archive
But mostly Garner spunkily goes about the business of gathering intelligence and trapping bad guys as if spies were just women who are really good at multitasking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Campaigning spunkily in his sand-colored sedan he has braved ugly crowds throughout the province, often getting an egg in the neck or a tomato broadside-on and never running for cover.
From Time Magazine Archive
Correspondents, surprised to see how spunkily Egyptian girl students stood up to this kind of treatment, decided to call on 70-year-old Mme Said Zaghlul.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I don't have to be an old maid," she snapped spunkily.
From Miss Minerva and William Green Hill by Frances Boyd Calhoun
