How to Use courageous in a Sentence

courageous

adjective

• She was a courageous woman who wasn't afraid to support unpopular causes.
• 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
• The latter would be at once the courageous and the prudent course.
  — David Bromwich, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Their mother, Pinson, said the boys taught her how to love and be courageous.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2021
• 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
• That kind of police work is amazing, risky and courageous.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 12 Nov. 2020
• Each day at the Faire, courageous knights engage in battles of skill to entertain the Queen.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2021
• Plan your first courageous step and put it in your calendar.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
• Smith’s friend, Edmund Burke, was one of the most courageous voices speaking out against it.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• To save the nation from peril, the Chinese people put up a courageous fight.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 1 July 2021
• Many young women who try to put a courageous step forward often get stuck on the risks.
  — Candace Doby, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2021
• Jeff Blue, a close friend who also played for Butler, recalled Williams as both clever and courageous on the court.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2022
• The writers were no doubt courageous but missed a bigger problem.
  — Thomas Emanuel Dans, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• Sometimes, pretty good is more than good enough. Be strong and courageous?
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
• Remembering and sharing the story of the courageous Maccabees and the Temple of Jerusalem where oil burned for eight long nights, this book is the perfect way for kids to learn and appreciate the importance of the holiday.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
• Still perhaps the most courageous improviser on the planet, Short threw himself into physical gags that seem impossible for a man his age.
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025