Examples of scrappy in a Sentence
Adjective (2)
she was a scrappy girl despite—or, perhaps, because of—her small size
a pair of scrappy movie critics who can never agree on anything
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Essence Editors, Essence, 17 Apr. 2025
Fairchild is a scrappy competitor who is hard to move.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
A lot of the clubs from that time were gone—Finbar’s, Hunt’s, Memorial Auditorium, where the band once opened for Allen Ginsberg—but the scrappy apartments mostly remained.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
The brand’s outsized presence on stage, in headlines, and on billboards along Silicon Valley’s busiest highways was just one part of its scrappy reach and frequency strategy.
—Seth Matlins, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Being scrappy and making something out of nothing isn’t typically rewarded in the VC world.
—Essence Editors, Essence, 17 Apr. 2025
Fairchild is a scrappy competitor who is hard to move.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
A lot of the clubs from that time were gone—Finbar’s, Hunt’s, Memorial Auditorium, where the band once opened for Allen Ginsberg—but the scrappy apartments mostly remained.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
The brand’s outsized presence on stage, in headlines, and on billboards along Silicon Valley’s busiest highways was just one part of its scrappy reach and frequency strategy.
—Seth Matlins, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scrappy
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“Scrappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrappy. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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