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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Today, companies need to be courageous enough to say what worked in the past does not work anymore.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• And these teachers have been courageous enough to embark on the difficult process of change.
  — Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Clark passed away in 2018 after a courageous battle with ALS.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The courageous Cashe would die from his wounds weeks later in an Army hospital, and the award is long overdue.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021
• The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
• In the clip, the courageous canine stands his ground and barks incessantly as the bear sniffs around the property.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Dempsey hopes that her path teaches her students to be courageous in pursuit of their dreams.
  — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• Ngannou’s courageous journey to the very pinnacle of his sport is beyond inspiring.
  — Patrick Snell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
• In Zephyr, Reed identified a similarly courageous figure.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024