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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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2025
The hosts, after ceding control of Game 1, pressed Miami and made the match scrappy.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
The scrappy distributor is betting that the floodgates opened by Bong Joon Ho’s 2020 triumph have permanently changed the Academy’s appetite for global stories.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
His films are also low-budget, scrappy productions, which appeals to Chastain.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Co-written by Jacobs and the late Avram Nobel Ludwig, this scrappy indie hits on important political themes at a critical time for immigrants in the United States.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2025
The hosts, after ceding control of Game 1, pressed Miami and made the match scrappy.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
The scrappy distributor is betting that the floodgates opened by Bong Joon Ho’s 2020 triumph have permanently changed the Academy’s appetite for global stories.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
His films are also low-budget, scrappy productions, which appeals to Chastain.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Scrappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrappy. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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