spunk

How To Use spunk In A Sentence

• The only time Palin can be accused of having spunk is when it comes to looking after her own interest in making money. Think Progress » Palin: With his ‘chalkboard technique,’ Glenn Beck is ‘changing our country.’
• She spunked up her courage finally and knocked at the door.
• Show some spunk . Quit pretending you're being abused.
• She didn't have her natural spunkiness, which made everyone a little suspicious.
• They would press on well into dusk, when spunkie lights rose from the hedgerows and swales and danced in the ground-mists, until they reached a suitable castle or large manor house, whose resident windvoice had received advance notice from the Royal Alchymist of the king’s imminent arrival. Conqueror's Moon
• Among her many virtues are loyalty,spunk,and truthfulness.
• And spunkie ance to mak us mellow, [liquor enough] Robert Burns How To Know Him
• Although Ballet Hispanico presented a trio of premieres, it was Ramon Oller's Bury Me Standing, first seen in 1998, that epitomized the duende of this spunky little company.
• The Australian Chamber Orchestra is now 28 years old, but under spunky young director/violinist Richard Tongetti, looks and talent have combined to make it one of the world's great ensembles.
• The Boston terrier sustains it popularity because it continues to embody the endearing qualities of its bulldog ancestors and the spunk of its terrier kin.