How to Use dauntless in a Sentence

dauntless

adjective
  • The job falls, nonetheless, to the dauntless Beanie Feldstein.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
  • With him is Gwendolen Kelling of York, a dauntless veteran war nurse, now orphaned and alone in the world.
    Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But for now, two of this continent’s most dauntless hikers are done.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But the world could explode in a fiery ball of chaos and still our dauntless Housewives would keep boldly moving forward.
    Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The dauntless pair always maintained a sense of mischief and humor, at one point frying eggs over the heat of volcanic rocks.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Now that the reckoning has arrived, which director would be dauntless enough for the task?
    James Wolcott, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017
  • Michelangelo, whose dauntless achievements Steinberg returned to again and again, is the subject of the first two volumes.
    Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
  • In a story within the story, the dauntless Shahrzad visits the angry king and soothes him with tales, winning relief for his people.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The dynamic leadership, the inspiring example, and the dauntless courage of Sgt.
    Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Against all these handicaps, Fritz Pollard plays with dauntless spirit.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Around the state’s restaurant industry, tales of despair are increasingly met with tales of hope: new foods, emerging brands, dauntless entrepreneurs.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • His dauntless bonhomie also wins over a crusty war correspondent, Russell Crowe’s Coates.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Thousands of people, many weeping, came to pay their last respects to one of the most colorful and dauntless reporters in the city’s storied journalistic history.
    Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In the courtroom on the last day of proceedings, after nearly six years of anguish and effort, Naveen rose to tell the judge of Sheri’s dauntless spirit and ruined future, of her sister’s agony and her family’s desolation.
    Beryl Lieff Benderly, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2015
  • Instead, at ferocious speeds and with dauntless control, there was anger, brutality and violence, on the way to an almost lonely, unwelcome death.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Played with daunting, dauntless precision by Saoirse Ronan (already, at 23, one of the most formidable actors in movies today), Lady Bird can give herself and everyone around her a hard time.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • What separates Dortch, according to Kingsbury, is the former Wake Forest standout’s dauntless exploits.
    Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Sierra portrayed Chano as a dedicated and dauntless cop who was emotionally invested in his work.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The committee’s report is the fullest record yet of the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election, much of it deriving from the dauntless work of earlier reporters, much of it newly gathered by the committee itself.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The perusal of the great Stoic philosopher was one of Professor Merrick’s favourite pursuits, and in this, as in all his other intellectual excursions, the cluster of ladies under his roof followed him with dauntless devotion.
    Edith Wharton, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • In Zelenskyy, Russia has found a dauntless opponent whose refusal to leave the capital has boosted his international image and helped secure billions of dollars of military aid, most of it from the Biden administration.
    Richard Engel, NBC News, 15 June 2023
  • Science shows us that rat moms are inventive, dauntless, resourceful—essential ingredients for creativity.
    Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • This sensitive, dauntless, cinematic deep dive promises insight and inspiration.
    Laura Manske, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • So the optimism of Inventing Tomorrow is quite uplifting, with dauntless teenage thinkers from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds working with resourcefulness and imagination to develop practical solutions to local eco threats.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The exhibition convincingly illustrates her exceptional sensibility, dauntless exploration of techniques, consummate skill as a printer, and willingness to tackle the complexities of life and death.
    Vicki Goldberg, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018

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