spitfire

Example Sentences

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“She was quite a spitfire. She lived her life to the fullest her way.”

From Seattle Times

She dressed as a spitfire pilot and wore a parachute tied to her back, as if she had just jumped out of the plane.

From BBC

"Rebuilding it, we've found evidence of equipment and structure which wouldn't have been on a factory-built PRU plane, so we suspect ours might have started out life being constructed as a fighting spitfire."

From BBC

Haggerty, a charismatic spitfire and poignant storyteller, seemed to relish the increased interest in Lavender Country and his music, which he described as “anti-fascist art tools to help us in the struggle.”

From Seattle Times

Talking about the UK's National Health Service and its role during the pandemic, the song references how "Thank U NHS is painted on a spitfire".

From BBC