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Example sentences for "pluckily"

Lexicographically close words:
pluche; pluck; plucke; plucked; pluckiest; plucking; plucks; pluckt; plucky; plue
  1. Mark Mason, the telegraph boy, was a sturdy, honest lad, who pluckily won his way to success by his honest manly efforts under many difficulties.

  2. Dan Mordaunt and his mother live in a poor tenement, and the lad is pluckily trying to make ends meet by selling papers in the streets of New York.

  3. The task proved a long and weary one, but they pluckily persevered.

  4. They were trembling a little now, but they went pluckily on.

  5. He saw her waiting expectantly for that impossible chaperon; and, grasping the situation, struggling pluckily to cover her amazement and dismay; he saw himself and Weatherbee nerving each other to offer her that miserable fare.

  6. She gained the upper ledge and waited, hugging the wall pluckily while he worked out on the rim of the basin and, stretching full length, with the stem of the tree under his waist, reached his arms down to her.

  7. Miss Armitage, who had trailed pluckily after Tisdale through the sage-brush and up the steep face of the bench, rested on the level, while he hurried on to find the easiest route to the high plateau and the spring.

  8. Where a finished spillway irrigated a mountainside, all the steep incline between the runnels showed lines on lines of diminutive trees, pluckily taking root-hold.

  9. These tricks and dodges set aside, the Boers fought more pluckily than was their wont, and they, cheered on by their dauntless Commandant, De Villiers, came to such close quarters that Colonel Hamilton had recourse to his revolver.

  10. Now, refreshed by their supper, both he and the broncho had come to their second wind, and they faced the storm pluckily and with unbowed heads.

  11. So far, he had never funked a fight; if it took his last bit of strength, he would go pluckily through this last, worse fight which he was destined to face.

  12. He died with his boots on, and fighting pluckily for a forlorn hope.

  13. Rains's Missourians responded pluckily to the fire, and Gen.

  14. Marmaduke, the Confederates stood their ground pluckily for a few minutes, but the steady advance of the Union troops, with the demoralizing effect of the shells, were too much for them.

  15. He trudged pluckily on across arid, rocky plains till the sun sank in a blaze of copper and gold behind his back.

  16. Stifling his fears as well as he could, the famished, bedraggled lad struck pluckily out.

  17. At once preparations were made for the third march on Lucknow, where the garrison was pluckily holding the rebels at bay.

  18. These Canadians had obstructed the road with fallen trees and abatis, falling back until they found favorable ground where they very pluckily intrenched themselves.

  19. Presently they got clear of each other and pluckily attempted to carry on the fight.

  20. And he threw off his clothing once more, and swam pluckily out to the tender and brought it ashore.

  21. They struggled pluckily on, and might have gotten safely to land without mishap, if they had been familiar with the shore of the island.

  22. Every step was painful to Nat, bruised as he was, and weak from hunger and thirst as well, but he pluckily gave no sign.

  23. Nat faced about, and was starting pluckily off in that direction when a sudden commotion in a clump of chaparral below attracted his attention.

  24. But Rob, nevertheless, determined that his best course lay in pushing on, and through the darkness he steadily and pluckily advanced.

  25. Pluckily forward plunged the pony, as if anxious to redeem his untimely stumble.

  26. The commanding officer, the world-famous Cecil Rhodes, who had so pluckily stayed behind to take a part in the siege, and a score of officers of the garrison, all stepped forward and shook them by the hand.

  27. The Gloucester, with the expectation that the harbor was full of mines, went pluckily in, and found five fathoms of water very near shore.

  28. Englishwoman, as we had surmised, but a Dane, who had pluckily braved the danger and discomfort of the roads to accompany her husband (a telegraphic engineer) to Eastern Siberia.

  29. One of the pleasantest recollections I have retained of that weary journey is that of the little beast who carried me so pluckily across a third of Asia!

  30. Sam still pluckily held on, but the calf evidently considered himself the aggressor, for he tried hard to shake Sam loose from him, his object evidently being to strike him with his head or feet.

  31. Quickly did he reappear and was soon helped into the canoe; but while he pluckily stuck to the sport for some time, the prudent Indians persuaded him to allow them to early paddle him home.

  32. The rest of the party, being near a manhole, luckily made their escape--all except the foreman, who had pluckily allowed his men to go first.

  33. It was he whom Mr. Sandham so pluckily rescued.

  34. It was a great race, pluckily run, and every horse that came in for prize-money was of the broncho breed.

  35. Mustard, nothing daunted, scrambled to his feet with an angry roar, the blood trickling from his injured nose, and pluckily began digging his claws into the bark of the pinyon tree, up which he slowly pulled himself again.

  36. Ned pluckily took his station just outside the circle of light formed by the replenished fire, and sat down with rifle laid across his knees.

  37. Pluckily the boy clung to his seat, though knocked violently against one obstacle after another in his hurtling progress.

  38. Virginia's eyes grew misty as she thought of him--how pluckily he went without things that "other chaps" had!

  39. Nightingale was killed during the action, when very pluckily leading his section over the bridge.

  40. Major Davis of Driscoll's very pluckily rode between the lines, blowing his whistle.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pluckily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boldly; daringly; gamely; heroically; intrepidly; manfully; resolutely