spunkier; spunkiest
Examples of spunky in a Sentence
a spunky determination to make the best of a bad situation
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Trawling through the bowels of the luxury resort, the prez has some allies with her (Manny, the Chinese First Lady, the spunky head of the International Monetary Fund) and some duds (Douglas Hodge as the British Prime Minister, cast here as a moron with some wonderful comic relief).
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, the rebellious young Jim Hopper, the son of the town police chief, can’t seem to do anything right; the spunky Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and leave town, stat (but still has a thing for bad boys); and the tech nerd Bob is hopelessly in love with her.
—Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Candy Clark came to Hollywood at the dawn of the seventies, a spunky twentysomething who’d fled her conservative Texas home town and taken up modelling in New York.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
Bubble Yum! Miu Miu’s bubblegum pink patent leather skirt acts as the spunky foundation in this transitional look.
—Talia Abbas, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, the rebellious young Jim Hopper, the son of the town police chief, can’t seem to do anything right; the spunky Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and leave town, stat (but still has a thing for bad boys); and the tech nerd Bob is hopelessly in love with her.
—Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Candy Clark came to Hollywood at the dawn of the seventies, a spunky twentysomething who’d fled her conservative Texas home town and taken up modelling in New York.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
Bubble Yum! Miu Miu’s bubblegum pink patent leather skirt acts as the spunky foundation in this transitional look.
—Talia Abbas, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for spunky
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“Spunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spunky. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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