How to Use courageous in a Sentence

courageous

adjective

• She was a courageous woman who wasn't afraid to support unpopular causes.
• Their mother, Pinson, said the boys taught her how to love and be courageous.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2021
• The person who is virtuously courageous displays not merely a single act of courage but the habit of courage.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 28 Nov. 2020
• It was meant as an ode to one of the most courageous yet little-known rescue efforts of Jews during the Holocaust.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• One courageous connection a day can get you exponentially closer to your dream career.
  — Amanda Nachman, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2021
• Their art was courageous, clever, witty, and beautiful, but also capable of inspiring bold change.
  — Fortune, 24 Nov. 2020
• But the depth of pain in Corden’s dramatic interactions with Streep is courageous.
  — Charles McNulty Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Its courageous staff and partners have taken action to address the pandemic in our community.
  — Star Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020
• The adversity of this moment has reminded us how inspiring and courageous our fellow citizens are who have made sacrifices on our behalf.
  — courant.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• The answer may be surprising: To get more courageous senators, Americans should elect more who are near the end of their political careers.
  — Peter Beinart, Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• The series follows her courageous lead, becoming an antidote to the doom-and-gloom dramas that dominate our culture (not to mention a ray of light in a world that can seem irrepressibly dark).
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2024
• Chuck Yeager was an American of an older, rarer kind: ready to take a risk for his country, courageous beyond measure, utterly without pretense.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• There’s a dancing-on-the-edge vibe to it all, a sense of courageous frailty.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
• The best leaders are courageous enough to change their minds when the facts change.
  — Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
• So here’s a courageous effort to come up with the top 10 teams.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.
  — Mitchell Wellman, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• So, who among us will be courageous enough to try this style for real?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 29 June 2022
• Thanks so much for your time this morning, Mr. White, and your courageous work.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• This is all to say that the ETSU players aren't just courageous.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2021
• Those with this sign are courageous, strong-willed and carefree.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
• The pale stretch of her legs is courageous for the twenty-degree weather.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• The women of Afghanistan continue to be the most courageous people on earth.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• From age 4 until the last few days of 17 years, Fuller fought a courageous fight against cancer.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 6 Oct. 2021
• In the video of the courageous rescue, fire officials are seen plotting their path to the startled deer in the middle of the lake.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• But Eva was the big thing—so courageous and cosmopolitan.
  — Chantel Tattoli, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
• At first the treatment seemed to help, but the courageous 10-year-old died earlier this month.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• At the outset of her career, Chicago was alert and courageous.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• There are more courageous people and more experts who can do that.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2023
• Each day at the Faire, courageous knights engage in battles of skill to entertain the Queen.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2021
• In Zephyr, Reed identified a similarly courageous figure.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024