scrappier in a sentence

Examples

1. As endorsement after endorsement rolled Bush's way, McCain became scrappier, playing up his status as a rebel with a noble cause.
2. Gopal Krishnan, a retired Army officer walking past the Renaissance Hotel on the way to a bank, was in an even scrappier mood.
3. Ruling that unlikely roost of semi-famous foreign actors and offbeat flicks was Miramax Films, the once-scrappy independent turned even scrappier Disney affiliate.
4. He's shorter and scrappier and physically bolder, stripping off to embrace Edgar ( Paul Rhys ) in the play's celebrated hovel scene.
5. Few would say that about Grand Bahama, 45 minutes away from Nassau by plane, where the resort industry is newer-- and some say scrappier.
6. The war on terror is pressing the FBI and CIA, once two solitudes, to mesh in ways their operatives could not have imagined in scrappier days.
7. Softkey's scrappier approach, which recently made it second to Microsoft in unit sales in North America, is on the opposite end of the investment scale.
8. Like any No . 2 team, they have to be a little scrappier, a little more open to taking risks, anything to capture the mind share.
9. My ambition for it was always huge, but we're more suited to a scrappier sounding thing, with the way that I sing and play guitar.
10. Under Cleghorn's veteran tutelage, Hitchman adopted a much scrappier style-if without Cleghorn's habitual dirty play-and his penalty minutes more than tripled.