How to Use feisty in a Sentence

feisty

adjective
  • The novel features a feisty heroine.
  • Even her opponents admire her feisty spirit.
  • The above first-look clip shows Squibb as Eleanor in feisty form.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 9 May 2025
  • When a Met crowd starts getting feisty, all is not well in the land.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Here’s how this feisty pup won the title — and what makes her special.
    — Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Kids and grown-ups alike will get a kick out of these feisty leprechaun footprints.
    — Sara Hendricks, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But don’t wait for the chance to boat a daily bag limit of five of the feisty trout.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Effertz, back in the lineup, blocked two shots as a feisty 6-foot guard.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Dwarf species can be feisty but are not dangerous to humans.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The Falcons have been feisty and haven’t gotten blown out on the road.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Back in the old days with a more feisty group of challengers, he would’ve been told to shut up and sit down.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • But beware of this alien’s feisty side when tapping his nose or belly twice.
    — Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of her earlier music about love was feisty and naïve (in a good way).
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
  • They were met in their driveway by a feisty polar bear, who lunged at the woman.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The game turned feisty in the second period, too.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Bess was willing to be feisty, to be difficult, to be in a bad mood, to be.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
  • This is mostly sub-severe, but a storm or two may turn feisty enough to drop hail and briefly heavy rain.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • But tenacious and feisty Porter’s free tuition pledge might be worth at least a few bucks.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • But tenacious and feisty Porter’s free tuition pledge might be worth at least a few bucks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Smith went from barely being able to talk one day, to being back to her old feisty self the next.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Beyond all that, Curry has been downright feisty in the war of words.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2018
  • Some could be feisty with wind gusts up to 40 or 50 mph, and perhaps some soft hail.
    — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022
  • First there's the chicken, fat pieces that have been rubbed in yogurt and lemon juice with some feisty char marks from the grill.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
  • There was no fight from the often-feisty Scherzer when Roberts came for the ball.
    — George Henry, ajc, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But Maura never overdoes the feisty granny bit.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Hence the grinding, for long stretches, against a feisty Ruud.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Salt Lake is a feisty team, though, and has been throughout the latter part of this season.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
  • As good as the Dodgers are at grinding out at-bats, the Yankees may be more feisty.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Winds are a bit feisty out of the west and northwest around 10-20 mph, with higher gusts.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • But as the video clip shows, the alligator proved to be feisty as the trapper removed it from the pool.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 31 Mar. 2018

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