COURAGEOUS in a Sentence

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273 example sentences for COURAGEOUS, such as:

1. No way is impossible to courage.
2. Take one's courage in both hands.
3. He showed great courage in battle.
4. He has proved his courage in battle.
5. Whatever may betide, maintain your courage.

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courageous
 a.  possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an indescribable courageous despondency.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
2  The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
3  This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
4  The courageous took to arms, the poltroons hid.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
5  When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET
6  Planchet was more courageous, it must be admitted, by day than by night.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
7  The cardinal fixed his piercing eyes on this courageous speaker.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
8  Milady, that woman so courageous and firm, shivered in spite of herself.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 49 FATALITY
9  His drab courageous wife drove the wagon, and she helped Kennicott support him as he hobbled up the steps, into the house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  But all the courageous intelligent people are fighting him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  Astonishment soon changed to admiration, and they passed on to other and less courageous victims, openly expressing their satisfaction at the firmness with which the white warrior sang his death song.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
12  Once more he tried the throng, as if seeking safety in its blindness, and then several moments succeeded, during which Duncan believed the active and courageous young stranger was lost.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
13  With the courageous words of the artillery and the spiteful sentences of the musketry mingled red cheers.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  He had not been courageous; he had never tried to put any other thoughts in the place of the dark ones.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  He has proved his courage in battle.
17  The soldier showed great courage in the battle.
18  He showed great courage in battle.
19  Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen.
20  The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth.
21  It take courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
22  No way is impossible to courage.
23  Whatever may betide, maintain your courage.
24  There was a wellspring of courage within her.
25  Have the courage to be honest with yourself and about yourself.
26  It took courage for her to beard the board of directors.
27  Take one's courage in both hands.
28  To remember that success lies within myself; in my own brain, my own ambition, my own courage and determination.
29  That candidate is an ass in a lion's skin, he would never have the courage to stand up for any cause.
30  The Chinese nation is distinguished for its diligence and courage.