muster courage

Example Sentences

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There are multiple ways this crisis can be addressed if elected officials muster courage to restore safety and civility.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2019

Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill.

From Time Magazine Archive

There the cold was so intense that he waited some time before he could muster courage to cut the cover away.

From A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Carlson, George

He couldn't muster courage to come up to the ring, but wandered up and down from the great fives'-court to the corner of the chapel rails.

From Tom Brown's School Day's by Hughes, Thomas

Before the two men who had been conferring together in the Hotel de Poisson could muster courage to return, the steward had in a great measure recovered from the effects of the fall.

From Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World by Optic, Oliver