pluckily

How To Use pluckily In A Sentence

• Even so, the three Americans pluckily visit museums, churches and galleries and sample the camaraderie of table d'hôte, The Master Takes a Tour
• Yorkshire's last-wicket pair of Steven Patterson and Moin Ashraf are resisting pluckily for the last wicket with Ashraf taking 20 deliveries to get off the mark. County cricket – as it happened!
• Off they pluckily trot then, to find the best in live entertainment on the island.
• After Mr Wilkins's death and the news that there is no longer enough money in the household to employ her, Miss Monro rouses herself pluckily.
• She then got to act opposite Julie Andrews, and critics were pleasantly surprised by the way the young girl stood pluckily up to the still-irresistible Sound Of Music veteran.
• One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton. MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
• Britain is an island, homogenous and unchanging, pluckily defending its heritage from the barbarian hordes who batter its shores.
• She knew that her chance would not come again, which was why, despite her capitulation in the marathon, she pluckily chose to run in the 10,000m, only to drop out once more.
• Aunt Judy's lap at the end next the fireplace, glided featly over the short words, plunged pluckily through the long, (braced, as it were, against the superior education and the spectacles behind me,) of the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, from the Word that was in the beginning, to the Hereafter of the glorified Son of man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
• Often the thrill of reading is to watch irrational people impose their emotional will on other characters, who must pluckily work to wriggle out from underneath it. Distortion Theory « Tales from the Reading Room