doughty

Example Sentences

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Young readers will cheer for the doughty girl, who braves the razored depths to haul the baby dragon to safety in this satisfying, sumptuously illustrated fable translated from the French by Alyson Waters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

In public he has been a doughty defender of independence, a parliamentary performer not averse to barracking and heckling his political opponents.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2024

None of these doughty Irish mams, abroad for the first time in their lives, display the slightest curiosity about their surroundings, or indeed anything beyond the horizons of their own tangled histories.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

His doughty performance, punctuated by that final dash to victory, spoke the loudest.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

And some said that when the Riders came from Rohan each would bring behind him a halfling warrior, small maybe, but doughty.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien