daredevilry

Example Sentences

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As symbols go, Niagara Falls offers plenty: a source of power, daredevilry, a bucolic vacation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2018

If the city has traditionally been knocked for anything, it’s that very safeness; a detour here ranks as low on the daredevilry scale as those T-bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2016

His work includes fashioning steel pipes that shatter like glass, and pyrotechnic daredevilry where entire mountain landscapes are illuminated by magnesium flares sent soaring into the sky at 3,000C.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2012

And now he has set his sights on a new deed of daredevilry — walking the 1,800 feet across the gorge of Niagara Falls while balancing on a two-inch-diameter steel cable.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2011

They would congregate in noisy groups, talk with furious energy, and smoke Virginia cigarettes with an air of daredevilry.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel