The trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury.
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Examples for "pluck "
Examples for "pluck "
1 For food, they need merely pluck bananas and mangoes from the trees.
2 He showed any amount of pluck in the affair with the Indians.
3 He approached the Bush, and stooped to pluck one of the Roses.
4 The women like prowess and the manly virtues of pluck and endurance.
5 Three times now I've stepped in to pluck her out of danger.
1 It was beautiful, the pluckiness of it, the impudence of it.
2 Western news organisations have produced articles and television segments extolling Bana's pluckiness in the face of fear.
3 Her demented pluckiness radicalised the plot.
4 I'll have to read up on it, she says with the pluckiness of one who fully believes she can change the world.
5 "It is no more than he ought to have done, for your pluckiness saved Flurry."
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