How to Use valorous in a Sentence

valorous

adjective

• Also valorous, and critical to the battle, were the deeds of Brig.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• The actor has more than enough talent to take on the smoldering, valorous Bond.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• Outside of the White House, some recognized Kitt’s action as valorous.
  — Scott Calonico, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
• The 2020 defense policy bill removed a requirement that such awards be given within five years of a valorous act.
  — Josh Boak, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• James Atlas, who died last week, of chronic lung disease, at seventy, was a valorous combatant who knew both glory and defeat.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Bonhoeffer had written his now famous Letters and Papers from Prison to Eberhard, who in releasing them had introduced his valorous genius friend to the wide world.
  — Eric Metaxas, National Review, 26 Oct. 2020
• What mattered were the valorous Vietnamese paratroopers.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
• Fear can make ordinary people turn valorous or villainous or just unattractive.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• The cult of the Lost Cause embraced an apocryphal history suffused with nostalgia for a world of valorous Confederates, kindly masters, and contented slaves.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• The four slain soldiers’ actions during the operation and under ambush were considered valorous, the officials said.
  — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• The practice of introducing valorous ordinary people was vastly overdone, and the July 4 old-fashioned flag-waving a trifle laborious.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024