dare

Example Sentences

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“A dare? Your audition for drama club? If so, I heartily recommend you for whatever part you’re trying out for, because you really had me convinced—you had me running through the library.”

From Literature

They went as slow and as close as they dared, past Turtle Beach and round the point of Frigate Bird Cliffs.

From Literature

Duvall was married three times before meeting Luciana Pedraza, a young woman who was dared by her friends to approach him on a Buenos Aires street and invite him to a tango gathering.

From Los Angeles Times

"I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you! How dare you?"

From BBC

He learned through writing the book that his mother hailed from a “family of brilliant and daring misfits who had carved new paths in botany and medicine and left-wing politics,” he writes.

From Los Angeles Times