spunk
noun
pluck; spirit; mettle.
Example Sentences
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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
Thompson Trophy, Designer Z. D. Granville spunkily entered one of his stock model Gee Bee's, but every observer knew the winner was simply a choice of one of the three Wedell-Williams's.
From Time Magazine Archive
By way of comic relief Austria, minute and disarmed by the Treaty of St. Germain, spunkily asked at Geneva last week for "arms equality."
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 think it has been spunkily fascinating of you to come and live by yourself in this old barn.
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
