spunky

Example Sentences

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"We will always feel blessed to have had this beautiful spunky ray of light in our lives. She will live on in our hearts forever!"

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2025

In the photo, Halsey adorns a spunky pixie haircut and overplucked skinny eyebrows to pay homage to O'Riordan's cherry red short hairdo and overall '00s punk rock aesthetic.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024

A former Duck spared his new team a blowout with some spunky play late in the first half.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2024

“Then, in the ’70s and ’80s, television gave us two women journalists — still spunky but way more independent — that we could root for: Mary Tyler Moore and Murphy Brown.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

The idea of a concert career for me appealed to his vision of himself as a poet and of me as more than a spunky tomboy.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago