fighting spirit
Example Sentences
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Fairhope doesn’t have what I think of as a fighting spirit.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Party leaders declared it payback and boasted about their new fighting spirit.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
"The fighting spirit wasn't there enough, the mentality wasn't there enough," Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai told TNT Sports.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
France’s army chief of staff in November warned his country’s main vulnerability was a lack of fighting spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
The weather of Winter is so relentless, so near the limit of tolerability even to them with all their cold-adaptations, that perhaps they use up their fighting spirit fighting the cold.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
