How to Use feisty in a Sentence

feisty

adjective

• The novel features a feisty heroine.
• Even her opponents admire her feisty spirit.
• The Falcons have been feisty and haven’t gotten blown out on the road.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
• Ball and Caruso were the lifeblood of Chicago's feisty defense over the first few months of the season.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
• Some could be feisty with wind gusts up to 40 or 50 mph, and perhaps some soft hail.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022
• Brady is feisty on the sidelines with coaches and teammates.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2022
• A lot of her earlier music about love was feisty and naïve (in a good way).
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
• Locked in a defensive battle with a feisty Crofton team, the Dundalk Owls dug in.
  — Aidan Thomas, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The game was feisty between the in-state rivals, with several scrums around the net and in the corners after plays.
  — Aaron Bracy, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
• On the basketball team, Nowak was both feisty and friendly.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2022
• Keisha The feisty girlfriend of Bundy who wants more from life and her relationship.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Nov. 2023
• Jared Padalecki and his wife Genevieve Padalecki have a feisty little girl on their hands.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
• Sara, the lead, played by Adwa Bader, is pretty feisty.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
• No longer able to be free and feisty, Jen has to tread carefully to avoid triggering the new beast inside of her.
  — Joe George, Men's Health, 19 Aug. 2022
• Black-footed ferrets are small but feisty and eat rats and small rodents.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
• With the feisty insect exterminated, the focus was back to the most in-demand celebrity of the year.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Barbara Pierce Bush has a feisty little toddler on her hands.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• The game got feisty at the end with Matthew Tkachuk among players receiving misconducts.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• Winds will be feisty from the northwest, sustained around 20 mph with gusts near 40 mph during the afternoon.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• If anybody gets too feisty, they will be dismissed as poll watchers.
  — Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
• As a world-builder, Regan has made a film every bit as feisty, self-possessed and street-smart as Georgie herself.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• Winds also will continue to be feisty from the west, and may be a little stronger than today, with gusts around 30 or 35 mph.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Her mother didn’t want the world to see feisty, independent Baelyn as weak and sick.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 May 2022
• But Durant held off the feisty Cavs with back-to-back clutch buckets to push the lead to double digits -- and essentially close the show.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
• This feisty 241-hp box on wheels has a racer's heart, a blueblood's manners, and a distaste for gasoline.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 19 Mar. 2022
• These two feisty broads could really whip the Housewives into shape.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Billy Napier’s team is feisty and could keep this close for a couple quarters.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 23 Oct. 2022
• Chou is hardly holding up his feisty hero as a martyr or savior.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
• The Duke Gets Desperate delights with its feisty heroine, beefy hero, and scorching hot love scenes.
  — EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024