mettlesome

Example Sentences

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The weather does its best to massacre his New Yorkers, tormenting them with frigid winters and suffocating summers; their response to the vital challenge is to show off the mettlesome resilience of the human animal.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013

That left Andsnes' athletic, mettlesome and exciting performance of the Brahms to lift the concert out of the ordinary.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 18, 2011

The movement's unacknowledged leader, if such a mettlesome mood can be said to have one, is surely Sean Brock, the brilliant young chef of McCrady's Restaurant in Charleston, S.C.

From Time • Oct. 27, 2010

A shy, passive, recessive figure has been transformed into an active, mettlesome, gender-challenging presence, a poet in control of her art and environment, and fully conscious of the mechanics of personal myth.

From New York Times • May 13, 2010

The mettlesome young bull lowered his horns and charged the obstacle, only to be thrown back with a smarting shoulder.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee