spitfire

How To Use spitfire In A Sentence

• Over the course of the film, she evolves from slightly shy, awkward schoolmarm to a spitfire who can dish it right back to Howard even when he is at his loudest and most obnoxious, and Zellweger hits every note.
• Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
• The girl who grew up around British Naval bases, who once dated a Spitfire pilot and somehow held him enthralled despite being wheelchair bound in a time that was unforgiving to "cripples" (how we wince at the term now), grew up into a writer who understood soldiers and soldiering, empires and subject peoples. Zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth
• The Triumph Spitfire is a classic car.
• And a newspaper clip turned up a Tonelli who plays for the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.
• The other car deserving of respect was a nice, little, low-slung Triumph Spitfire - I secretly envied the acceleration.
• ‘What a spitfire,’ Dylan laughed and Pat just shook his head.
• Daniel Irving, however, was the spitfire on the team, constantly hooting and yelling in the intense games just to keep the girls' morale up and stir some sort of reaction from their deadened features.
• Poor Helen's Dublin glories ended (the second year, I think) in total wreck - drink, quarrel with her fool of a brother, dismissal home or into outer darkness, and adieu of the/spitfire/kind! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
• As the war went on and Spitfires appeared in more substantial numbers, the Hurricane took on the fighter-bomber role. Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale