FORTITUDE in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for FORTITUDE, such as:

1. You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it.
2. He was awarded the medal for his fortitude in the battle.
3. On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her.
4. Concern for her unhappiness, and respect for her fortitude under it, must strengthen every attachment.
5. But she knew she could no longer endure with any fortitude the sound of his voice when there was no love in it.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORTITUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fortitude
 n.  bravery; force; power to attack or to resist attack
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
3  They had fortitude and self-reliance, and in time of difficulty or peril stood up for the welfare of the state like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
4  Concern for her unhappiness, and respect for her fortitude under it, must strengthen every attachment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
5  Long letters from her, quickly succeeding each other, arrived to tell all that she suffered and thought; to express her anxious solicitude for Marianne, and entreat she would bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
6  I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings, and that my want of fortitude under them had almost led me to the grave.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
7  You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
8  I cannot leave him even now, without remembering with a pang, at once his modest fortitude and his great sorrow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
9  Miss Mills was very glad to see me, and very sorry her papa was not at home: though I thought we all bore that with fortitude.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
10  Beyond a line or two, to say that I was well, and had arrived at such a place, I had not had fortitude or constancy to write a letter since I left home.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
11  I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
12  Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  But she knew she could no longer endure with any fortitude the sound of his voice when there was no love in it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
14  Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
15  There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
Example Sentence:
1  Prince Charles spoke of his grandmother's fortitude and devotion to duty after the death of her husband, King George.
2  He was awarded the medal for his fortitude in the battle.
3  It ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.
4  England missed key players through injury, lacked adequate preparation and was unable to match Australia's skill, mental fortitude or desire.