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Example sentences for "daring"

Lexicographically close words:
darf; dari; daric; darics; darin; daringly; dariole; dark; darke; darken
  1. Immortal powers, that know the painful cares That wait upon my poor distressed heart, O, bend your brows, and level all your looks Of dreadful awe upon these daring men!

  2. Twere injury to Sylla and to Rome: Nor would the height of his all-daring mind Brook to the death so vile and foul disgrace.

  3. Therefore, Sylla, these daring terms unfit Beseem not thee before the capitol.

  4. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e’er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?

  5. Is any man so daring As dig one up in spite, He shall find their sharpest thorns In his bed at night.

  6. Might not the lad be rescued by some daring effort?

  7. The poor child bore all this with the greatest patience, not daring to complain to her father, who, she feared, would only reprove her, for she saw that his wife governed him entirely.

  8. Have you not read of their daring exploits in the newspapers?

  9. And as he spoke he rubbed the too daring fellow's face roughly on the ground.

  10. But his had been the daring to conceive an ambush at so remote a western point, and his the brain that had guided them to this swift sweet victory in the name of Allah the One.

  11. The crew stood in appalled silence, daring to make no movement that might precipitate their end.

  12. What shalt thou say to him, O dog, when he calls thee to account for daring to outbid him.

  13. His half-brother moved softly about the house now in a sort of self-effacement, never daring to intrude upon Sir Oliver's abstractions.

  14. Now these were daring words to address to the tyrant Asad, and still more daring was the tone, the light hard eyes aflash and the sweeping gestures of contempt with which they were delivered.

  15. Asad rose instantly and for all that Fenzileh, greatly daring as ever, would still have detained him, he shook her off impatiently, and went out.

  16. It shall be done," said Sakr-el-Bahr, daring to insist no further and dissembling his chagrin.

  17. This may have spurred him in the cool dawn to a very daring and desperate enterprise which Destiny sent his way in the shape of a tall-masted Dutchman homeward bound.

  18. She obeyed him instantly, without a murmur; and he himself lingered at the gates with Tsamanni until her litter had passed out, escorted by Ayoub and Marzak walking each on one side of it and neither daring to meet the angry eye of the Basha.

  19. And then a golden glory suffused the deep sapphire of the sky heralding the setting of the sun and made an end of that altercation, conducted by her with a daring as singular as the patience that had endured it.

  20. The people of Auvergne still recount with admiration the daring feats of this brigand.

  21. He often threatened to leave Dee to shift for himself; and the latter, who had degenerated into the mere tool of his more daring associate, was distressed beyond measure at the prospect of his desertion.

  22. A breath of embarrassment, of something like alarm, passed round the room, so daring did these words appear upon the lips of Hermiston's only son.

  23. It is a collection, for the most part, of old favorites, for Americans have been quick to take to heart a stirring telling of a daring and noble deed; but these may be found to have gained freshness by a grouping in order.

  24. The Messiah would come to His kingdom, and then--and then--the thought leaped to its last daring limit.

  25. The recital of the daring deeds of the frontier is not only interesting but instructive as well and shows the sterling type of character which these days of self-reliance and trial produced.

  26. We beheld all this with dread, but without daring to defend ourselves, or to divert them from their mischievous design.

  27. I know how to revenge your presumption in daring to prefer another to me, and I swear that your daughter shall be married to the most contemptible and ugly of my slaves.

  28. Of all the daring warriors who have started out in search of the Ulunsu'ti only Agan-uni'tsi ever came back successful.

  29. At length a daring young man, a member of an influential family, organized a conspiracy among the people for the massacre of the priesthood.

  30. He plumed himself with the idea that he could distinguish himself in this daring adventure, and he prepared for it, according to the custom of warriors.

  31. The old man listened in silence, scarcely daring to believe.

  32. As for Ona, she declares he pulled her back as if she had been daring the plague.

  33. Your thoughts are daring in their flight to-day.

  34. In the forest the wind roars, striking off the joyfully waving arm of many a young pine, breaking the neck of many a daring giant.

  35. The starved or daring wood-devils hold closer communication with the mass of mankind outside than one would suppose, and than they themselves perhaps imagine.

  36. These barricades were commanded by daring leaders.

  37. Nevertheless, all the more reason, in my opinion, to astonish and awaken Paris by an extraordinary spectacle, by a daring act of life and collective power on the part of the Representatives of the Left, by the daring of an immense devotion.

  38. It was necessary, a still more daring outrage, to arrest at their houses sixteen Representatives of the People.

  39. He felt that his crime rose up there, threatening and erect; he fled, not daring to face Paris.

  40. He was one of the most daring combatants of the Rue Pagevin, a friend of Lecomte the younger.

  41. The ingenuous spirits cast down their eyes--that is becoming to purity; more daring spirits raised their heads.

  42. By turning his head he could see the flickering fire, and imagine it surrounded by some of those good fellows whom he had known long ago, daring riders of bucking bronchos, and expert wielders of the flying rope.

  43. Ty nodded his head vigorously, not daring to trust himself to speech.

  44. Ty had read about daring feats which lads no older than himself had performed at such critical times.

  45. Nicholas and Calabash, not daring to attack me openly a second time, fastened me up in my chamber to allow me to perish of hunger in it.

  46. I remained motionless at the door for awhile, looking at the stone flooring of the apartment, and neither daring to advance nor lift up my eyes, thinking that everybody was looking at me.

  47. What might be imagined happened, and Germain fell passionately in love with his neighbour, without daring to say a word to her of his love.

  48. It will be easily understood that the Baron now ran no inconsiderable risk in his daring attempt.

  49. All the blood of victims slain Never can your country save, Till that country you sustain With the daring of the brave.

  50. Darius, the son of Hystaspes, endeavoured by sinister means to get possession of this, not daring openly to take it; but his son Xerxes afterwards seized it, putting the priest to death who endeavoured to prevent its removal.

  51. Thereat the seer sprang out from under the bridge and rushed upon the king for 'daring to call him a scoundrel,' and, drawing his sword, attacked him.

  52. Not daring to tell the emperor the truth, she wanted to revenge herself on the poor birdcatcher.

  53. It was a plucky and daring little action, and unique of its kind in the annals of any nation; for never before had fighting taken place at altitudes well over the summit of Mont Blanc.

  54. He had been with the Mission escort from the very first, and in many of these very dangerous assaults on villages had displayed most daring courage.

  55. It had come to his sitting shamefaced before a poor unknown sawbones--not daring to look him in the face.

  56. He carried a gun always, and was more daring than his companions in retreat.

  57. Suddenly he hooked a larger fish, and, not daring to step back beneath the overhanging oak, he proceeded to tire his fish out in the deep water.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advanced; adventuresome; adventurous; ambitious; arrogance; arrogant; audacious; audacity; balls; blazon; bold; brash; brassy; bravado; brave; bravery; bravura; braw; brazen; bumptious; challenging; cheeky; contempt; contemptuous; courage; courageous; daredevil; daring; dash; dashing; dauntless; defiant; demonstration; derisive; despite; disdain; disdainful; display; disregard; disregardful; dramatics; eclat; enterprise; enterprising; exhibition; exhibitionism; face; fearless; figure; flair; flashing; flashy; flaunting; flourish; foolhardy; forward; frilly; frothy; gallant; game; gay; glittering; gumption; gut; hardy; harebrained; headlong; heroic; impertinence; impertinent; impudence; impudent; insolence; insolent; intrepid; jaunty; madcap; manifestation; manly; nerve; originality; pageant; pageantry; parade; pert; pertness; presumption; presumptuous; prowess; rakish; rash; reckless; risque; saucy; sham; show; showy; spectacle; spirit; splash; splashy; splurge; sporty; stalwart; superhuman; swashbuckling; temerity; vaunt; venturesome; wild