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Example sentences for "unflinching"

Lexicographically close words:
unfixed; unflagging; unflattering; unflecked; unfledged; unflinchingly; unfold; unfolded; unfolding; unfoldings
  1. Of the fierce brutality of the crowd of that age, we may form a vivid idea from the unflinching pencil of Hogarth.

  2. Rights cannot be denied to those who fulfilled duties involving self-sacrifice of the sublimest kind with unflinching devotion.

  3. Whatever their guns could do, in so close a country, to relieve the infantry had been accomplished; and the infantry, though continually outflanked, held together with unflinching courage.

  4. The Wisconsin regiments held their ground with unflinching courage.

  5. But to risk cause and country, name and reputation, on a single throw, and to abide the issue with unflinching heart, is the supreme exhibition of the soldier's fortitude.

  6. There was little organisation among the handful of mounted men who dashed forth to turn them back, but there was plenty of coolness, commonsense, and unflinching courage.

  7. It was the char-woman of the Benedick who, resting on crimson elbows, examined her with the same unflinching curiosity, the same apparent reluctance to let her pass.

  8. Mrs. Fisher continued to probe her embarrassment with an unflinching eye.

  9. The doctor moved uneasily in his chair, glancing again and again round the room, while his brother continued to watch him with his keen unflinching eyes.

  10. For he had a manly resolution, a steady unflinching determination, to live up to the standard which he fixed for himself.

  11. Have we the energy, the directness, the singleness of purpose, the unflinching steadiness in the dullest possible labor, that mark the typical industrial chief?

  12. If he had a passion in his scientist's bosom, it was for exact and unflinching veracity.

  13. But Caesar adding fury to the breasts Already flaming with the rage of war, That each might bear his portion of the guilt Which stained the host, unflinching through the ranks Passed at his will.

  14. But mighty Caesar trusting on the throw, As was his wont, his fortune, and o'erjoyed To front their anger raging at its height Unflinching comes.

  15. They put that object in their public manifestoes; but, like many of the Chartists of a later date, their ultimate aim was the redistribution of wealth; and this it was which brought on them the unflinching opposition of Pitt.

  16. To this proposal Grenville offered unflinching opposition, coupled with a conditional threat to resign.

  17. Letters poured in from the country, unflinching letters, but crying out, "we are poor.

  18. Mrs. Stranahan was active in every good work in the city of her adoption, and those who knew her felt that they could confide in her judgment, her discernment, her tact, and her unflinching integrity and principle.

  19. Moral integrity, and unflinching fidelity to the cause of humanity, were leading traits of his character.

  20. For the first time he was able to return her gaze directly, and as she looked into the unflinching gray pupils, under the level brows, there was a momentary combat, then her own dropped.

  21. He regarded her with pained but unflinching innocence.

  22. She raised her head, showing cheeks blazing with anger, and dark, sullen, unflinching eyes.

  23. Throughout this period Mr. Chandler labored, in public and in private, and with earnestness and effect, to inspire the new party with vigor of conviction and unflinching firmness of purpose.

  24. Only the fingers curled tight into the palms of her hands, betrayed the mighty effort she was making to hold herself in check, and this Miss Ware did not see, for Hester's unflinching eyes held her with a strange fascination.

  25. He had only to close his eyes to see a slender girlish figure with head thrown back and radiant, unflinching eyes smiling and smiling into his very heart.

  26. Something unflinching about the girl's quiet tone made the man say beseechingly, "Ah!

  27. An air of benignity and easy good nature veils and conceals in him the most unflinching perseverance and energy of purpose.

  28. Heaven only knows how bitterly this hard man may have felt the separation between himself and his only son, or how much the more terrible the anguish might have been made by that unflinching self-conceit which concealed the torture.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unflinching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.