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 wrote to Hunt himself, and paraded one night, two hours in front of his hotel, in Covent Garden, before he could muster courage sufficient to ask the waiter to take his effusion up.

From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob

But this is at best a precarious refuge, for, as soon as the Normans muster courage to explore the forest, she will inevitably fall into their hands again.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John