How to Use courageous in a Sentence
courageous
adjective
- She was a courageous woman who wasn't afraid to support unpopular causes.
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There’s a dancing-on-the-edge vibe to it all, a sense of courageous frailty.
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Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2023
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The video was made by a courageous teen-age black girl.
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Emily Bernard,
The New Yorker,
25 June 2020
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The best leaders are courageous enough to change their minds when the facts change.
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Gleb Tsipursky,
Fortune,
8 Aug. 2022
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The latter would be at once the courageous and the prudent course.
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David Bromwich,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Oct. 2020
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So here’s a courageous effort to come up with the top 10 teams.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2024
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.
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Mitchell Wellman,
USA TODAY,
22 Sep. 2021
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We’re taught to be vigilant and courageous and seek the truth and shine light in very dark places.
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Char Adams,
The New Republic,
19 June 2020
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So, who among us will be courageous enough to try this style for real?
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
29 June 2022
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Thanks so much for your time this morning, Mr. White, and your courageous work.
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ABC News,
19 Nov. 2023
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This is all to say that the ETSU players aren't just courageous.
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Mike Freeman,
USA TODAY,
3 Apr. 2021
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Those with this sign are courageous, strong-willed and carefree.
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Olivia Munson,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2023
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Their mother, Pinson, said the boys taught her how to love and be courageous.
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Slone Terranella,
Detroit Free Press,
14 Jan. 2021
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Some of us are stronger than others, some smarter, some more courageous.
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Cameron Hilditch,
National Review,
12 Aug. 2020
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The pale stretch of her legs is courageous for the twenty-degree weather.
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Seija Rankin,
EW.com,
25 Aug. 2021
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The women of Afghanistan continue to be the most courageous people on earth.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
Washington Post,
12 Aug. 2022
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From age 4 until the last few days of 17 years, Fuller fought a courageous fight against cancer.
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Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com,
al,
6 Oct. 2021
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In the video of the courageous rescue, fire officials are seen plotting their path to the startled deer in the middle of the lake.
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Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
Fox News,
30 Nov. 2023
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But Eva was the big thing—so courageous and cosmopolitan.
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Chantel Tattoli,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Dec. 2023
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At first the treatment seemed to help, but the courageous 10-year-old died earlier this month.
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David A. Shaywitz,
WSJ,
24 Feb. 2021
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At the outset of her career, Chicago was alert and courageous.
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Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
18 Oct. 2023
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But there’s more to this civil rights icon than a single courageous act.
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Jennifer Nalewicki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2020
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There are more courageous people and more experts who can do that.
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David Marchese David Marchese,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2023
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That kind of police work is amazing, risky and courageous.
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Dave Lieber,
Dallas News,
12 Nov. 2020
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Each day at the Faire, courageous knights engage in battles of skill to entertain the Queen.
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San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Aug. 2021
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Plan your first courageous step and put it in your calendar.
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Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Smith’s friend, Edmund Burke, was one of the most courageous voices speaking out against it.
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Dominic Pino,
National Review,
15 Dec. 2023
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To save the nation from peril, the Chinese people put up a courageous fight.
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Annabelle Timsit,
Quartz,
1 July 2021
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A couple courageous workers ventured toward the Faraday Road side of the property and peeked into the tunnel.
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Erin Couch,
The Enquirer,
31 Dec. 2024
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Mosby deserves to be pardoned by President Joe Biden for her courageous attempts for justice.
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Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2025
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