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 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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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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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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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 | [email protected],
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 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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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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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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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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Jeff Blue, a close friend who also played for Butler, recalled Williams as both clever and courageous on the court.
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Kristine Phillips,
The Indianapolis Star,
30 Dec. 2022
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The writers were no doubt courageous but missed a bigger problem.
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Thomas Emanuel Dans,
WSJ,
4 Nov. 2022
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Today, companies need to be courageous enough to say what worked in the past does not work anymore.
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Simon Perry,
Peoplemag,
6 Sep. 2023
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And these teachers have been courageous enough to embark on the difficult process of change.
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Natalie Wexler,
Forbes,
12 Apr. 2022
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Clark passed away in 2018 after a courageous battle with ALS.
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Cam Inman,
The Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2024
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The courageous Cashe would die from his wounds weeks later in an Army hospital, and the award is long overdue.
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James Freeman,
WSJ,
13 Dec. 2021
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The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct.
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Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
24 June 2022
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In the clip, the courageous canine stands his ground and barks incessantly as the bear sniffs around the property.
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Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE.com,
19 Aug. 2021
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Dempsey hopes that her path teaches her students to be courageous in pursuit of their dreams.
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Kat Cornetta,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 Dec. 2022
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Ngannou’s courageous journey to the very pinnacle of his sport is beyond inspiring.
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Patrick Snell,
CNN,
18 Oct. 2024
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In Zephyr, Reed identified a similarly courageous figure.
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The New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2024
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