HEROISM in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for HEROISM, such as:

1. It was heroism become monstrous.
2. He showed great heroism in battle.
3. These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism.
4. She smiled, recognizing the heroism of the offer to the point of being frankly touched by it.
5. In proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled the barricade more and more.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEROISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heroism
 n.  bravery; qualities of hero or heroine
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
2  He contemplated that gigantic sear which stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted goodness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
3  There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
4  These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
5  Roland gets himself killed for Angelique; all our heroism comes from our women.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MIS...
6  In proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled the barricade more and more.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT
7  It complicates its heroism with a violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which it is fatally punished.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
8  It was heroism become monstrous.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
9  Nobody could pretend, as they looked at the shuffle of shilling shockers that week-enders had dropped, that the looking-glass always reflected the anguish of a Queen or the heroism of King Harry.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
10  It has everything in its favour: heroism, danger, bustle, fashion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  But to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
13  And the heroism of the Servians and Montenegrins struggling for a great cause begot in the whole people a longing to help their brothers not in word but in deed.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 1
14  She smiled, recognizing the heroism of the offer to the point of being frankly touched by it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  When Carol was touched by the desire for heroism in Raymie and tried tactfully to express it, Vida made her feel like an impertinent child.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  He showed great heroism in battle.