How to Use death-defying in a Sentence
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Hardy’s death-defying stunts will live in the minds of fans for the rest of their lives.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Cirque du Soleil is taking its death-defying routines to the big and small screen.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2024
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In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
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While many of the workshops take place on the mountain, the overall program isn’t about death-defying descents.
—Nina Kokotas Hahn, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2023
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Tom goes missing and Colt must find him, while performing death-defying stunts along the way.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024
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Big stunts and death-defying sequences are a staple of Cruise’s movie wheelhouse.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
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The death-defying design of the skates, along with the heavy material of the long brown skirt, would cause most athletes to face-plant within seconds.
—Dina Gachman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024
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The Marshall amps became glowing LED screens, upstaged only by the death-defying rigs that move lightning-fast above the band’s heads.
—Kat Bein, SPIN, 26 Apr. 2024
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So the filmmaker ditched the CG action and got the actors to perform their impressive, death-defying feats.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
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While the city has made progress on a 50-mile circuit trail (a cause for celebration), getting to it (or to anywhere else) on two-wheels is an act of death-defying courage.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
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The vision of hardy frontier folk stepping up to the mic to regale friends and neighbors with gonzo tales of death-defying rescue by outerwear was too good to pass up.
—Jay Stowe, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
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The care John and Jane have for one another is real, expressed in gestures as small as a bowl of homemade soup or as grand as a death-defying rescue.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
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The stunt, billed as the most death-defying one of Cruise’s acting career thus far, finds Cruise riding a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff and then parachuting to safety while in free fall.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 June 2023
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Ding, dong, a numbing offseason is done, from contract disputes to a death-defying shooting to their top draft pick.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
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Cirque’s death-defying maneuver For Cirque du Soleil, the fall from grace was especially painful.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
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Satellites have recorded the death-defying jumps since 2009, but what happens next has remained a mystery until now.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
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Their remarkable, death-defying journey across some 3,500 miles of ocean underlines the risks some migrants are prepared to take for a shot at a better life.
—Reuters, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
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View full post on Instagram So, when exactly will fans get to see Tom perform his latest death-defying stunt?
—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
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The star's powerful belt booms as her Elphaba makes a death-defying leap out a high-tower window, only to soar into the sky on her broomstick.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
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In the film, having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
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The students, however, don't just practice death-defying tricks all day; there's also some classroom work at circus school.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2024
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Lou and Jim rose to prominence and success right as the nation took an interest in mountaineering as a death-defying sport for pros and a pastime for tourists and rich adventurers.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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That loss — a capstone in a string of setbacks for Jennings — is told through the former X Games champion’s unique point of view and his singular commitment to a death-defying passion.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024
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Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream — a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world.
—Michaela Zee, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
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Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world.
—Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
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Through the swerving and death-defying maneuvering (Waller-Bridge punches, leaps and jumps cars and at one point is seen hanging out of the back of a car window in full action star mode), the two are bickering back and forth about the dial.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
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Hemsworth’s death-defying stunts in the latest Extraction 2 trailer include endless punching and kicking and using a riot shield to beat off a chaotic swarm of attacks in a prison yard.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
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Thrills were an overture to the heroic, death-defying humor of the James Bond films, but something is wrong when a 27-year-old franchise grinds out familiar routines in the same blatant, humorless manner.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 July 2023
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Reckoning dropped Sunday during Super Bowl 2025, teasing death-defying stunts across land, sea, and sky.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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While other butterfly species may migrate in a single direction, often in search of food, the monarch is the only one that completes a death-defying, two-way migration, like birds do.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
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