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

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

Right now, doughty retail investors are looking like the most likely source of relief, as institutional players get cold feet in the midst of a macro maelstrom.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022

Though slow to quarrel, and for sport killing nothing that lived, they were doughty at bay, and at need could still handle arms.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien