Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use plucky in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Plucky means having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances. Example: “"Dam' plucky of you, fixing it up like that.”

Examples of plucky by meaning

adjectiveHaving or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.

  • "Dam' plucky of you, fixing it up like that.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 231
  • Bezos introduced himself as a lucky and humble example of the success of American democracy — the son of a plucky mother and a supportive, immigrant father who “fostered my curiosity and encouraged me to dream big.”2020 July 29, “Lawmakers From Both Sides Take Aim at Big Tech Executives”, in New York Times

More sentences with plucky

  • The focus of Simpson’s ire was a spunky, young upstart, the plucky 39-year-old Chase Utley.2019, Mark Barry, BP staff, “Los Angeles Dodgers”, in Patrick Dubuque, Aaron Gleeman, Bret Sayre, editors, Baseball Prospectus 2019: The…. From the entry old man yelling at cloud
  • So our plucky thieves switch to a “cash business,” which Gaston doesn’t mind but Lily does.1977, The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry amateuse
  • You’re a good sort and that was a rattlin’ plucky tackle you made yesterday.1908 November 7, Owen Johnson, “Making Friends”, in The Saturday Evening Post […], volume 181, number 19, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis…. From the entry jimminy crickets
  • Plucky old Walder Frey gathers his family for a feast and toasts to their massacre of the Stark family.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry keel over
  • In the end, only eight plucky contestants made the grade.2009 March 19, Margaret Wente, “Please stop nannying us, Toronto!”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, page A13. From the entry make the grade
  • A plucky, compact vendor of fish, Mr.2003 July 20, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Humble Paddlefish Fulfills Southerners' Caviar Dreams”, in The New York Times. From the entry paddlefish
  • It was a name he liked: plucky, Midwestern and reliable-sounding.1995, Carl Hiaasen, Stormy Weather, Alfred A.Knopf,Inc., →ISBN, page 256. From the entry Deborah
  • The plucky young flyweight is down again!1991, Dick Cate, The incredible Willie Scrimshaw, London: A. & C. Black, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry catastroscope
  • It's a story of close friendship between a city girl and a plucky little hillbilly who keeps house for her granpy.1943, “Justus, May Lizzie Whitman 9-11”, in Library Lens, volumes 1–3, Denver, Colo.: Colorado State Library, →OCLC, page 13. From the entry granpy
  • To call it feminist is to imply that we should also imagine plucky, intelligent, nonattached, and resourceful women being torn apart, along with bimbos and cops.1991 February 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The Ill and the Sick”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry nonattached
  • She looked as if she would be a plucky, tireless sportswoman; yet she had a wistful, tender huggableness that a girl ought not to lose, however well she plays tennis.1916, Rupert Hughes, The Thirteenth Commandment, A. L. Burt Company, page 16. From the entry huggableness

Meaning of plucky

  1. adjective Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.

Full definition of plucky

Questions about plucky in a sentence

How do you use plucky in a sentence?
Plucky is used as an adjective. For example: “"Dam' plucky of you, fixing it up like that.”
What is a short sentence with plucky?
“A plucky, compact vendor of fish, Mr.”
What does plucky mean?
Plucky means having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plucky (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use plucky in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/plucky. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.