How to Use doughty in a Sentence

doughty

adjective

• Same sort of doughty heroine taking the final fight to the monster.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• And yet amid the carnage, the earnest, doughty station wagon has emerged unscathed.
  — Kyle Stock, The Seattle Times, 7 Jan. 2019
• One foot still in the stirrups, the doughty Englishman was saved by a loose-fitting shoe from being dragged to death.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• Stymied by his dilemma, Bill turns to doughty flight attendant Jo.
  — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• One doughty grey-haired woman in a woollen jumper leads her tribe down the broken walkway, her walking stick pointing the way.
  — Tom Rowley, 1843, 6 Mar. 2020
• Portraits of a few of these feckless rotters line the wall on the way to dinner, along with the portrait of another of the doughty women who seem to keep popping up in Yorkshire.
  — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021
• Since this early work, our knowledge of chimpanzees has continued to expand thanks to an array of doughty field workers.
  — David Barash, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• These days the doughty turkey has won the loyalty of millions of people for another reason—as a favourite festive-season meal.
  — The Economist, 23 Dec. 2020
• Some of that freshness comes from the cast, a cornucopia of effervescent young talent ballasted by a handful of doughty old-timers.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
• There was many a tense moment for George as Elizabeth moped about in tearful martyrdom while her mother and grandmother, the doughty old Queen Mary, fought her battle for her.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Apr. 2021
• At nearly a century, the Duke of Edinburgh is the proud, doughty patriarch of a Royal Firm eminently well-prepared for the modern era.
  — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 10 June 2019
• Such things can easily be remedied in the future -- with, say, scattered hay to soak up the mud and better coordination on the crowd control -- and doughty festivalgoers seemed to take the entire episode in stride.
  — AL.com, 18 July 2017
• On yet another set sits a doughty Victorian tugboat, the deck raked at an alarming angle, as if bracing against an unexpected swell.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2019
• No doubt some doughty psycho-biographer has decreed that the great detective was bipolar, or autistic, or had Asperger’s syndrome.
  — Simon Callow, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• That a teenager could not only appear for such an assessment but do so before the doughty examiner Mistowsky was an astonishing achievement.
  — Priya Chaturvedi, Quartz India, 16 July 2019
• There has been scant polling in Michigan accounting for the possibility of an Amash candidacy, but what little there is likely sends a shiver through the heart of Biden’s most doughty institutional supporters.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2020
• Despite the ministry’s nimble online work and doughty conventional fighting by Ukraine’s military, Russia's attacks have intensified, and some cities and towns have been captured by Russian forces.
  — Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
• Far from being cowed by the brutal murder of Jan Kuciak, a journalist at Aktuality, Slovakia’s doughty investigative reporters step up their game.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018

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