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

She may have felt a touch of guilt because she could not muster courage to tell her father that she had already visited Mr. Coleman.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Fyles, Franklin

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

It was full a minute before I could muster courage to answer: "I wish I could say as much for myself."

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri