In a sentence
Six example sentences with plucky, each labelled with its topic.
The plucky eighth seed refused to fold, clawing back from nineteen down against a roster worth ten times more.
Basketball
Four plucky engineers took on an industry giant from a garage, and somehow still held territory five years later.
Startups
Children's fiction loves a plucky orphan who loses everything in chapter one and keeps walking anyway.
Literature
The plucky sidekick gets the biggest cheer, limping back to help after the hero has already given up.
Movies
The game stars a plucky mail carrier who keeps delivering letters across a flooded kingdom while everyone tells her to quit.
Gaming
The plucky little rover was built for ninety days on Mars and kept sending data for nearly fifteen years.
Science
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