How do you use Spunk in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like kindling or bravery, plus the exact meaning.
Spunk meaning
- A spark.
- Touchwood; tinder.
- A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
Synonyms of Spunk
Using Spunk
- The main meaning on this page is: A spark. | Touchwood; tinder. | A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
- Useful related words include: kindling, bravery, courageousness, courage.
- In the example corpus, spunk often appears in combinations such as: of spunk, spunk and.
Context around Spunk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spunk
- In this selection, "spunk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, outgoing, extra, middle, luka, spewing and love stand out and add context to how "spunk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adamawa with spunk and all his spunk. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spunk" sits close to words such as aaj, abn and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spunk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She had spunk and tenacity," the woman said. (8 words)
Raw potatoes with babies fingers in a spunk sauce. (9 words)
Alecia Wareham has the outgoing spunk, Luka Knott has the quiet demeanor. (12 words)
Fans will fall in love with the fierce women of this show like Maggie, Liza's long-time artist friend, who is the perfect amount of spunk, and Kelsey, Liza's new colleague, who is ambitious and loyal. (38 words)
Not only is she passionate and emotional, as he pointed out, but she’s also got a lot of spunk and she’s not going to back down if something happens that she doesn’t like. (36 words)
We have shared wisdom over coffee every Friday for many weeks, and she has taught me how to find my own voice within the Jewish community by keeping with tradition and adding my own spunk. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alecia Wareham has the outgoing spunk, Luka Knott has the quiet demeanor.
It isn’t for every spunk-spewing dirtbag on the net, or every greedy record company executive to buy his mistresses diamonds with.
Your forehand will have some extra spunk on it after eating their chorizo dog with pickled mango, onion and Awesome Burger’s signature sauce.
She had so much spunk + love for Survivor and what the show brought to her life.
Authorities reported that a man died on Sunday morning after he drowned in Middle Spunk Lake near Avon.
Betty loved to dance, and had a wonderful sense of humor and a lot of spunk.
Not only is she passionate and emotional, as he pointed out, but she’s also got a lot of spunk and she’s not going to back down if something happens that she doesn’t like.
This means Asta looks round in this special cover than usual, but he still has all his spunk.
All of Hollywood witnessed her spunk when she insisted on appearing at the year’s Academy Awards presentation.
Fans will fall in love with the fierce women of this show like Maggie, Liza's long-time artist friend, who is the perfect amount of spunk, and Kelsey, Liza's new colleague, who is ambitious and loyal.
Raw potatoes with babies fingers in a spunk sauce.
Through it all, they haven’t lost an ounce of spunk or zest for life.
We have shared wisdom over coffee every Friday for many weeks, and she has taught me how to find my own voice within the Jewish community by keeping with tradition and adding my own spunk.
Granted that this is a customary government approach to security challenges, I had expected him to address specific cases in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara and Adamawa with spunk.
Laurel Cooper is 8 years old and full of sass and spunk.
Mrs. LaSalle has been described as having spunk, great attitude about life, wonderful sense of humor, a very alert mind but most of all, a fighter for veterans’ benefits and comfort.
She had spunk and tenacity," the woman said.
Soprano Kirsten MacKinnon invested good-girl Micaela with welcome spunk, and baritone Adrian Timpau rounded out the principal cast as the bullfighter Escamillo, perhaps my least favorite major role in all of opera.
Spunk Press (archive) * Wells, Sam. "Anarcho-Capitalism is Not Anarchism, and Political Competition is Not Economic Competition" Frontlines 1 (January 1979) or that capitalism itself is compatible with anarchism.
Tom Sawyer proposes "spunk-water" (or "stump-water", the water collecting in the hollow of a tree stump) as a remedy for warts on the hand.
Common combinations with spunk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of spunk 4×
- spunk and 4×