sparkplug
Example Sentences
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As for Hyeseong Kim, he has been a sparkplug for the offense.
From Los Angeles Times
They have a sparkplug in Jones, who made all five of her threes and scored a game-high 15 points.
From Los Angeles Times
John Doe is holding his bass and tackling vocal duties, while his longtime tag team partner, the band’s sparkplug Exene Cervenka, is also testing the mic with her vocals.
From Los Angeles Times
Two years removed from his breakout 2022 campaign — when he batted .276, had an above-league-average OPS+ and led the NL with seven triples — the 26-year-old has yet to consistently become a bottom-of-the-order sparkplug again, thanks in no small part to the torn ACL he suffered last spring.
From Los Angeles Times
“Once we get Julio going and he’s driving the ball out of the yard like that, I mean that’s a good thing for us because he’s kind of a sparkplug for this team,” Garver said.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
