DARING in a Sentence

Learn DARING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
259 example sentences for DARING, such as:
1. No one dared take up the challenge.
2. The exam went better than I'd dared hope.
3. Bergit was probably more daring than I was.
4. He dared to challenge the established order.
5. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DARING
daring
 a.  disposed to venture or take risks
 n.  the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  He encouraged her to speak her mind, to be flippant and daring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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)
1  Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.
2  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
3  Bergit was probably more daring than I was.
4  To write and publish this poem was a daring, transgressive act.
5  Being youngsters, we sat modestly at the back, never daring to speak.
6  This was one of the most daring prison breakouts to take place in Greece.
7  I learnt so much from him in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.
8  Those who dared to launch out beyond the unknown waters became the discoverers of new lands.
9  He dared to challenge the established order.
10  No one dared take up the challenge.
11  With stakes this high, we have not dared to tamper with the basic concept of motherhood.
12  The exam went better than I'd dared hope.
13  He had dared to speak out against injustice, and overnight he became a national hero.
14  Freud had not dared to publish the third chapter of his book in Vienna.
15  On the rare occasions when they met he hardly even dared speak to her.