How to Use mettle in a Sentence

mettle

noun

• The competition will test her mettle.
• Who have mettle enough to catch hold of the demons of our era and blow them to pieces?
  — David Kipen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• At two hours, this tour will test your mettle for the macabre.
  — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
• While some come to test their speed, most come to test their mettle.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• Novak showed her mettle at the end of Game 2 as the Redwings tried to close out the match.
  — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Cromwell put his mettle to the test with an overnight HooptieX build.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 29 July 2023
• The saga has threatened the mettle of even the most devoted members of the space.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Dec. 2022
• And like most first kills, this one is designed to test Pam's mettle — and ours.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• Saarloos praised the bullpen and the team’s mettle for refusing to give in.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2024
• One day, after a year in the gym, the coaches wanted to test his mettle.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Ben Davis showed some mettle by fighting back to a 46-34 count in the third quarter.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2023
• In some ways, the 18-mile hike tested our mettle even more than the longer Whitney hike.
  — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• What Biden is facing is a test of mettle, not a pitfall to dodge.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2023
• Could the pairing of two words invite more doubt about a city’s mettle?
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 19 Feb. 2022
• Wins against the Lakers and Warriors prove that the team has the mettle to rise to the occasion and compete with some of the best in the league.
  — Doyle Rader, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• This weekend in Houston will be the first real test of the Longhorns’ mettle.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• The Orioles will have to show their mettle without him.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2023
• The last time this columnist questioned Davis’ mettle was all of 16 days ago.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• Now, all 1½ acres of the mettle-testing island can be yours.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• The Ducks responded with a drive that tested the Beavers’ mettle.
  — oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2022
• Bo Nix out-dueled Cameron Rising in a test of mettle and grit.
  — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2022
• Medvedev showed his mettle by breaking Sinner right back to even the first set at 3-3.
  — Marc Berman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
• The Hoosiers'' defense showed its mettle late and kept Wisconsin out of the end zone all day.
  — Steve Megargee, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• The last month of the regular season will test their mettle.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Last year tested the world's mettle and proved its resilience.
  — CNN, 26 Mar. 2021
• With the 23rd-best offense in college basketball, the Longhorns will test the mettle of the Cyclones.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
• An epidemic is a test not just of our mettle but our morals.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Mar. 2020
• She’s a person with a stronger sense of herself and a stronger mettle than Jimmy.
  — Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• The anecdotes are presented as rites of passage or tests of mettle, survival stories not about staring down the barrel of a gun, but the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
• There’s no better way to test your mettle as a horror movie aficionado than to attend a nighttime screening while feet away from the corpses who helped bring those scares to life on the silver screen.
  — Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024