DARING in a Sentence

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For DARING, below is one of 259 sentences:
But she also learned that by comparison Gopher Prairie was a model of daring color, clever planning, and frenzied intellectuality.

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 Meanings and Examples of DARING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
daring
 a.  bold; brave
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As soon as dinner was over he set out again for the wood-lot, not daring to linger till Jotham Powell left.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  Charles Hamilton had not risen with the others and, finding himself comparatively alone with Scarlett, he leaned closer and, with the daring born of new love, whispered a confession.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Scarlett sat quietly on the stool fanning herself, not daring to look up, wishing Captain Butler back on the deck of his ship where he belonged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  In a fit of daring he had whispered to her that she was as pink and fragrant as a rose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  He encouraged her to speak her mind, to be flippant and daring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  The daring black chemise of frail chiffon and lace was a hussy at which the deep-bosomed bed stiffened in disgust, and she hurled it into a bureau drawer, hid it beneath a sensible linen blouse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  It makes me crawly to think of their daring to talk over all I do and say.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  But she also learned that by comparison Gopher Prairie was a model of daring color, clever planning, and frenzied intellectuality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  She glared back, defending her own, daring the world not to appreciate them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  We sat and watched the long bowed back under the blue sheet, scarcely daring to breathe.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
11  He was not tall, but he carried his head so haughtily that he looked a commanding figure, and there was something daring and challenging in his eyes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
12  That daring, which nobody had ever suspected in her, awoke.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
13  She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
14  The boy grew more daring, and Mrs. Pontellier might have found herself, in a little while, listening to a highly colored story but for the timely appearance of Madame Lebrun.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
15  I honor those good men and women for their noble daring, and applaud them for willingly subjecting themselves to bloody persecution, by openly avowing their participation in the escape of slaves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  She hardly dared to understand the meaning behind his statement.
17  I dared to put off the mendicant -- to resume my natural manner and character.
18  All that you have dared to insinuate is utterly false.
19  The disguised prince resented the cavalier way in which the palace guards treated him. How dared they handle a member of the royal family so unceremoniously!
20  His warning soon turned out to be well justified, as the attacking ship unleashed its initial salvo from a distance much greater than a Springer captain would have dared to fire.
21  She dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
22  He was in a snit this morning and I didn't dare approach him.
23  Mike gave him such a severe look he didn't dare argue.
24  He didn't quite dare to imagine himself as a real artist.
25  Too much commitment to slip away from the fingers dare ask what.
26  That is true, and don't you dare contradict.
27  God is Love, I dare say, but what a mischievous devil Love is.
28  A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
29  I wonder if he dare stand up to his boss.
30  He dare not tell us his evil conduct.