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Six example sentences with mettlesome, each labelled with its topic.
The mettlesome freshman kept driving into the lane after two hard falls, and the crowd started standing for her.
Basketball
The mettlesome garrison held the pass for eleven days on short rations and refused three offers to surrender.
History
The mettlesome mare shied at nothing, and her rider finished the course despite a stirrup that broke at the water jump.
Fitness
The mettlesome founder kept pitching after forty rejections, and the forty-first investor wrote the check that launched the company.
Startups
The novel's mettlesome heroine refuses the arranged match, crosses the moor alone, and never once asks for rescue.
Literature
A mettlesome backbencher kept the debate alive past midnight, answering every heckle without once raising her voice.
Politics
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